Alticola

Mountain voles Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Genus:	Alticola Blanford, 1881
Species
Alticola albicaudus Alticola argentatus Alticola barakshin Alticola lemminus Alticola macrotis Alticola montosa Alticola olchonensis Alticola roylei Alticola semicanus Alticola stoliczkanus Alticola strelzowi Alticola tuvinicus

Alticola is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

It contains the following species:

• Subgenus Alticola
  • White-tailed Mountain Vole (Alticola albicauda)
  • Silver Mountain Vole (Alticola argentatus)
  • Gobi Altai Mountain Vole (Alticola barakshin)
  • Central Kashmir Vole (Alticola montosa)
  • Royle's Mountain Vole (Alticola roylei)
  • Mongolian Silver Vole (Alticola semicanus)
  • Stoliczka's Mountain Vole (Alticola stoliczkanus)
  • Tuva Silver Vole (Alticola tuvinicus)
• Subgenus Aschizomys
  • Lemming Vole (Alticola lemminus)
  • Large-eared Vole (Alticola macrotis)
  • Lake Baikal Mountain Vole (Alticola olchonensis)
• Subgenus Platycranius
  • Flat-headed Vole (Alticola strelzowi)

References

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005), "Superfamily Muroidea", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 894–1531, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4