Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Alticola albicauda (True, 1894) . Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 17: 12 . TYPE LOCALITY: India , Baltistan, Braldu Valley . DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from the Himalayan portions of Baltistan and Kashmir, NW India . SYNONYMS: acmaeus . COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Although usually included in A. roylei ( Corbet, 1978c ; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951 ; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977 ), the diagnostic traits of albicauda that set it apart as a distinct species were earlier pointed out by Hinton (1926). Schwarz's (1939) acmaeus identifies a geographic variant of the same species.