Lake Baikal mountain vole

The Lake Baikal mountain vole 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, in southern Siberia. It is also found in a small part of the bordering mainland Russia, on the Baikal coast of the Irkutsk Oblast. It was originally described as a subspecies of the silver mountain vole. Since then, it has been synonymized with A. roylei in 1978, A. tuvinicus, and A. macrotis before reinstating it as a species. It is likely a sister species to A. tuvinicus.[2]

Lake Baikal mountain vole
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Genus: Alticola
Species:
A. olchonensis
Binomial name
Alticola olchonensis
Litvinov, 1960
Synonyms

Alticola baicalensis
Alticola tuvinicus olchonensis
Alticola argentatus olchonensis
Aschizomys olchonensis

References

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  1. ^ IUCN (2016). "Alticola olchonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ^ Kryštufek, Boris; Shenbrot, Georgy I. (July 2022). Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region (1 ed.). Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-961-286-611-2.

Further reading

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  • Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005), "Superfamily Muroidea", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 894–1531, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
  • Bodrov, S.Y., Kostygov, A.Y., Rudneva, L.V. et al. Revision of the taxonomic position of the Olkhon mountain vole (Rodentia, Cricetidae) Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci (2016) 43: 136. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359016020035