Silver Mountain Vole

Silver Mountain Vole
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Myodini
Genus: Alticola
Species: A. argentatus
Binomial name
Alticola argentatus
(Severtzov, 1879)

The Silver Mountain Vole (Alticola argentatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan.[2]

References

  1. ^ Molur, S. (2008). Alticola argentatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 14 February 2009.
  2. ^ Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 958