Alticola barakshin

Bannikov, 1947

Gobi Altai Mountain Vole

Also as Gobi Altai's Vole.
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Location:Mongolia, Omnogovi province, Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, Yolyn Am 43° 29.703'N 104° 3.352'EDate taken:15 September 2016Description:Also as Gobi Altai's Vole.

Distribution :

Low to middle altitudes in Tuva region (Kyzyl Valley), Russia; southward through Gobi and Mongol Altais, rocky outcrops over transAltai Gobi Desert and Barun Khurai Valley, to S Mongolia and adjacent China.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 4707

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Supramyomorpha
Infraorder: Myomorphi
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Clethrionomyini
Genus: Alticola
Subgenus: Alticola

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Bannikov, A.G. 1947. A new species of high-mountain vole from Mongolia. Доклады Академии наук СССР 56(2):217-220.

Original name as described

Alticola barakshin

Other common names

Gobi Altai's Vole

Type material

ZMMU S-41969

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-41969

Type locality

Dzun Saykhan, Gurvan Saykhan Ridge, Govi Altai Mountains, S Mongolia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China · Mongolia · Russia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002150

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Alticola barakshin

Bannikov, 1947

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

barakshin

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMMU S-41969

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Dzun Saikhan, the Gurban Saikhan ridge, the Gobian Altai mountains

Type locality

Mongolia.

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-41969

Authority page

217

Authority publication

Доклады Академии наук СССР

Name usages

Bannikov (1947:217) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68848)
Corbet & Hill (1991:169) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Musser & Carleton (1993:503) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63347)
Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
Smith & Xie (2008:217) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:306) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #950) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #950) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Kryštufek & Shenbrot (2022:86) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59729)
Kryštufek & Shenbrot (2022:86) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59729)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002150) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/950/22343139) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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