Alticola

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Mountain voles Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Alticola Blanford, 1881
Species
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 the Cricetidae 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)

[edit] 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.