Alticola albicauda

(F. W. True, 1894)

White-tailed Mountain Vole

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Arvicolinae
Tribe : Clethrionomyini
Genus : Alticola
Subgenus : Alticola

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

True, F.W. 1894-05-08. Notes on mammals of Baltistan and the Vale of Kashmir, presented to the National Museum by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17:1-16.

Original name as described

Arvicola albicauda

Type material

USNM:MAMM:20393 (= USNM:MAMM:A36816)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Braldu Valley, Baltistan [= Northern Areas, Parkistan]."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Pakistan · India

Taxonomy notes

albicauda treated as invariable noun and ending isn't changed to -us

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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