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Volemys Zagorodnyuk, 1990. Vestn. Zool., 2:28. TYPE SPECIES: Microtus musseri Lawrence, 1982. COMMENTS: Tribe Arvicolini. A small group of alpine or subalpine species isolated on high mountains in SW China, N Burma and on Taiwan. All have traditionally been placed in Microtus, although their phylogenetic relationships with other species in that genus were regarded as obscure or equivocal (see the discussion in Zagorodnyuk, 1990).

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 534, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098