Grey Red-Backed Vole

Grey Red-backed Vole
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Myodes
Species:	M. rufocanus
Binomial name
Myodes rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846)
Synonyms
sikotanensis (Tokuda, 1935)

The Grey Red-backed Vole (Myodes rufocanus) is a species of vole. An adult Grey Red-backed Vole weighs 20-50 grams, and has a body length of 110-142 millimeters, with a tail of 39–55 mm in length. This species ranges across northern Eurasia, including northern China, the northern Korean Peninsula, and the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaidō. It is bigger and longer-legged than the Northern Red-backed vole, which covers a similar range.

References

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Tchabovsky, A. 1996. Clethrionomys sikotanensis^{[dead link]}. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• Won, Byeong-o (원병오) (2004). 한국의 포유동물 (Hangugui poyudongmul, Mammals of Korea). Seoul: Dongbang Media. ISBN 89-8457-310-8. 

See also

• List of placental mammals
• List of mammals of Korea