- Alticola
Taxobox
name = Mountain voles
fossil_range =Pleistocene to Recent
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Cricetidae
subfamilia =Arvicolinae
genus = "Alticola"
genus_authority = Blanford, 1881
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Alticola albicaudus "
"Alticola argentatus "
"Alticola barakshin "
"Alticola lemminus "
"Alticola macrotis "
"Alticola montosa "
"Alticola olchonensis "
"Alticola roylei "
"Alticola semicanus "
"Alticola stoliczkanus "
"Alticola strelzowi "
"Alticola tuvinicus ""Alticola" is a genus of
rodent in theCricetidae family.It contains the following species:
*Subgenus "Alticola"
**White-tailed Mountain Vole ("Alticola albicauda")
**Silver Mountain Vole ("Alticola argentatus")
**Gobi Altai Mountain Vole ("Alticola barakshin")
**Central Kashmir Vole ("Alticola montosa")
**Royle's Mountain Vole ("Alticola roylei")
**Mongolian Silver Vole ("Alticola semicanus")
**Stoliczka's Mountain Vole ("Alticola stoliczkanus")
**Tuva Silver Vole ("Alticola tuvinicus")
*Subgenus "Aschizomys"
**Lemming Vole ("Alticola lemminus")
**Large-eared Vole ("Alticola macrotis")
**Lake Baikal Mountain Vole ("Alticola olchonensis")
*Subgenus "Platycranius"
**Flat-headed Vole ("Alticola strelzowi")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.
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