Lake Baikal mountain vole

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Lake Baikal mountain vole
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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

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. While it was originally described as a species, Pavlinov and Rossolimo reassigned it as a subspecies of A. tuvinicus in 1987 before reinstating it as a species in 1998.

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References

  1. IUCN (2016). "Alticola olchonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

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