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 Clethrionomys centralis Miller, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:373 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R ., Kazakh. S.S. R ., Taldy-Kurgansk. Obi., Koksu valley, Dzhungarsk. Alatau Mtns . DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to Tien Shan and Dzhungarsk. Alatau Mtns. ( U.S. S. R. and Sinkiang , China ). COMMENT: Earlier literature refers to these voles as frater (Thomas, 1908). Corbet, 1978:99, determined that frater is a junior synonym of centralis , which had been incorrectly referred to rutilus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:661 . Corbet, 1978:99, placed centralis as a synonym of glareolus , but Orlov, 1968, [Probl. Evolution], 1:184-194, Orlov and Kryukova, 1975, [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Moscow, p. 26, and Gromov and Polyakov, 1977 , [Voles (Microtinae), Fauna U.S. S.R.], Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad, 3(8): l-502, provided evidence of its specific distinctness. Still referred to in Russian literature as frater (RSH, OLR).