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 Microtus nivalis (Martins, 1842) . Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 331 . TYPE LOCALITY: Switzerland , Bernese Oberländer, Faulhorn . DISTRIBUTION: Discontinuous, mostly montane, from Spain through the Alps, Appennine, Tatra, Carpathian, and Balkan ranges to Turkey , Palestine , Caucasus, Elburz, Zagros, and Kopet Dag Mtns. COMMENT: Subgenus Chionomys ; see Anderson, 1960 , or Suranomys Chaline, 1974 ; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:327 , considered Chionomys a full genus. Van der Meulen, 1978 , Ann. Carnegie Mus ., 47: 140, considered Suranomys a junior synonym of Chionomys (LDM) . Related to gud and roberti , but all three occur in the Caucasus. Peshev, 1970, Mammalia , 34:252-268, showed that further study is needed of the populations now included in this species (SRL). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080029001.