Order Rodentia (Part 4) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 477 504 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353034 4170533d-8435-4cb4-93df-e7f9489eb798 0-89327-235-3 7353034 Pitymys leucurus (Blyth, 1863) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 32:89 . TYPE LOCALITY: India , Ladak, near Lake Chomoriri (=Tsomoriri) . DISTRIBUTION: Tsinghai, Sinkiang , and Tibet ( China ) (SW), and the Himalayas west to Kashmir. COMMENT: Subgenus Phaiomys ; see Chaline, 1974 ; or subgenus Neodon ; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:252 . Corbet, 1978:107, included strauchi, which Van der Meulen, 1978 , Ann. Carnegie Mus ., 47:101- 145, listed as a distinct species. If Pitymys were considered a subgenus of Microtus, leucurus would be preoccupied by leucurus Gerbe, 1852, now included in M. nivalis; M. leucurus Blyth would then be called M. blythi (Blanford, 1875) (WDS). Martin, R. A., 1974, in Webb, ed., Pleistocene Mammals of Florida , p. 60, considered Phaiomys a distinct genus. Includes fuscus, considered a separate species of Microtus (Lasiopodomys) by Zheng and Wang, 1980 , Acta Zootax. Sin., 5(l):106— 111; but also see Corbet, 1978:107. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080020001 as Microtus leucurus .