Grey Red-Backed Vole

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Grey Red-backed Vole
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Myodes
Species: M. rufocanus
Binomial name
Myodes rufocanus
(Sundevall, 1846)
Synonyms

sikotanensis (Tokuda, 1935)

The Grey Red-backed Vole (Myodes rufocanus) is a species of vole. An adult Grey Red-backed Vole weighs 20-50 grams, and has a body length of 110-142 millimeters, with a tail of 39-55 mm in length. This species ranges across northern Eurasia, including northern China, the northern Korean Peninsula, and the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaidō. It is bigger and longer-legged than the Northern Red-backed vole, which covers a similar range.

[edit] References

  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Tchabovsky, A. 1996. Clethrionomys sikotanensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • Won, Byeong-o (원병오) (2004). 한국의 포유동물 (Hangugui poyudongmul, Mammals of Korea). Seoul: Dongbang Media. ISBN 89-8457-310-8. 

[edit] See also

Species of Myodes (Red-backed vole)

M. andersoni | M. californicus | M. centralis | M. gapperi | M. glareolus | M. imaizumii | M. regulus | M. rex | M. rufocanus | M. rutilus | M. shanseius | M. smithii |