Alexandromys mongolicus
(von Radde, 1861)
Mongolian Vole
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Cricetidae |
| Subfamily | : Arvicolinae |
| Tribe | : Microtini |
| Genus | : Alexandromys |
| Subgenus | : Alexandromys |
Species status
Authority citation
Radde, G.F.R. von. 1861. Neue Säugethier-Arten aus Ost-Sibirien. Mélanges biologiques tirés du Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg 3(5-7):676-687.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11850871Original name as described
Arvicola mongolicus
Type material
ZIN S. 6219
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
Omutnaya River Valley, tributary to Amur River, Transbaikalia (Chitinskaya Oblast), Russia.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Russia · Mongolia · China
Taxonomy notes
moved from Microtus to Alexandromys; previously included the recently described A. alpinus as a subspecies
Taxonomy notes citation
Liu, S., Jin, W., Liu, Y., Murphy, R. W., Lv, B., Hao, H., ... & Fu, J. (2016). Taxonomic position of Chinese voles of the tribe Arvicolini and the description of 2 new species from Xizang, China. Journal of Mammalogy, gyw170. · Lissovsky, A. A., Petrova, T. V., Yatsentyuk, S. P., Golenishchev, F. N., Putincev, N. I., Kartavtseva, I. V., ... & Abramson, N. I. (2018). Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomy of East Asian voles Alexandromys (Rodentia, Arvicolinae). Zoologica Scripta, 47(1), 9-20. · Bannikova, A. A., Lebedev, V. S., Poplavskaya, N. S., Simanovsky, S. A., Undrakhbayar, E., Adiya, Y., & Surov, A. S. (2019). Phylogeny and phylogeography of arvicoline and lagurine voles of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 68(2), 100-113.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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