Anteliomys hintoni

(Osgood, 1932)

Hinton's Red-backed 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 : Anteliomys
Subgenus : Ermites

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1932-08-19. Mammals of the Kelley-Roosevelts and Delacour Asiatic expeditions. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 18(10):193-339.

Original name as described

Eothenomys (Anteliomys) custos hintoni

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:33073

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Wushi [= Wuxu], southwest of Tatsienlu, Szechwan [= Sichuan], China. Altitude 12,000 feet [= 3658 m]."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

split from custos and includes the recently described jinyangensis, luojishanensis, and meiguensis; moved from Eothenomys to Anteliomys

Taxonomy notes citation

Liu, S., Liu, Y., Guo, P., Sun, Z., Murphy, R. W., Fan, Z., ... & Zhang, Y. (2012). Phylogeny of oriental voles (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae): molecular and morphological evidence. Zoological science, 29(9), 610-622. · Kryštufek, B., & Shenbrot, G. (2022). Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region. University of Maribor Press, Maribor.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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