Lake Baikal mountain vole
| Lake Baikal mountain vole | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Myodini |
| Genus: | Alticola |
| Species: | A. olchonensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Alticola olchonensis (Litvinov, 1960) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Alticola baicalensis | |
The Lake Baikal or Olkhon mountain vole (Alticola olchonensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found principally on the Olkhon and Ogoi islands on Lake Baikal. While it was originally described as a species, Pavlinov and Rossolimo reassigned it as a subspecies of A. tuvinicus in 1987 before reinstating it as a species in 1998.
References
- ↑ Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Alticola olchonensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
Further reading
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005), "Superfamily Muroidea", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 894–1531, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
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