Alticola tuvinicus

Ognev, 1950

Tuva 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

Ognev, S.I. 1950. Звери СССР и прилежащих стран. Том VII. Издательство Академии Наук СССР, Moscow, 706 pp.

Original name as described

Alticola tuvinicus

Other common names

Tuva Silver Vole

Type material

ZMMU S-95898

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

vicinity of town Kyzyl, Tuvan Republic (S Siberia), Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · Mongolia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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