Lake Baikal mountain vole

Lake Baikal mountain vole
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific 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

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 being reinstated as a species. It is likely a sister species to A. tuvinicus. ^[2]

References

1. Gerrie, R.; Kennerley, R. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Alticola olchonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T136648A115211010. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T136648A22343229.en .
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

• 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.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
• Bodrov, S.Y.; Kostygov, A.Y.; Rudneva, L.V.; et al. (2016). "Revision of the taxonomic position of the Olkhon mountain vole (Rodentia, Cricetidae)". Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci. 43 (2): 136. Bibcode:2016BioBu..43..136B. doi:10.1134/S1062359016020035.