Japanese Red-Backed Vole

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Japanese Red-backed Vole
Conservation status
Vulnerable
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Myodes Species: M. andersoni
Binomial name
Myodes andersoni (Thomas, 1905)

The Japanese Red-backed Vole or Wakayama Red-backed Vole or Anderson's Red-backed Vole (Myodes andersoni) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in Japan.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Phaulomys andersoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.

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 |