Microtus sachalinensis Vasin, 1955. Zool. Zh., 34:427 -431. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Sakhalin Isl., Poronaisk Dist., Olen River. DISTRIBUTION: Sakhalin Isl. (U.S. S.R.). COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:292. Related to maximowiczii of mainland Asia; see Meier, 1978, Trudy Zool. Inst., Leningr., 75:3-62, loc. cit., 79:85-90, who provided evidence of specific status.

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 497, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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