Lake Baikal Mountain Vole

Lake Baikal Mountain Vole
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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
Alticola baicalensis Alticola tuvinicus olchonensis

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

1. ^ Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Alticola olchonensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 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 0801882214