Ochotona alpina (Pallas, 1773). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 2:701.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kazakh S.S. R., Altai Mtns., Tigeretskoe Range, vic. of Ust-Kamenogorsk.

DISTRIBUTION: N. Ural, Putorana, Sayan and Altai Mtns. (U.S. S.R. and Mongolia); N. E. Siberia to Chukotka and Kamchatka; Sakhalin (U.S. S.R.); N. Kansu, N. Ningsia, and N. E. China; Korea; Hokkaido (Japan).

COMMENT: Includes hyperborea; see Corbet, 1978:69; Gromov and Baranova, 1981:74. Also see Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:79, who considered hyperborea a distinct species with a distribution overlapping that of alpina. Does not include collaris and princeps; see Weston, 1981, in Myers, Proc. World Lagomorph Conf.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301409001001001001 as O. alpina.

5301409001001004001 as O. hyperborea.