Alticola roylei Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10:265. TYPE LOCALITY: India, "Cashmere.” DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Afghanistan, N. Pakistan, probably adjacent Tibet and N. India; Pamir, Tien Shan, Altai, and other ranges, north to Lake Baikal, and east through Mongolia to Sinkiang (China). COMMENT: Includes argentatus and barakschin; see Heptner and Rossolimo, 1968, Sbor. Tr. Zool. Mus. Moscow State Univ., 10:53-93; but argentatus may be a distinct species and barakschin may be a subspecies of stoliczkanus; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977, [Voles (Microtinae), Fauna U.S. S.R.], Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad, 3(8):129. Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:133, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 176, both treated argentatus, as a distinct species and the latter excluded barakschin from roylei. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008068003001.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 479, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034