Afghan Vole

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Afghan Vole
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Blanfordimys Species: B. afghanus
Binomial name
Blanfordimys afghanus (Thomas, 1912)

The Afghan Vole (Blanfordimys afghanus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It it found in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Blanfordimys afghanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
• 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.