Common Name
Southern Red-backed Vole
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Species Name
Myodes gapperi
Status
Data Deficient as M. g. solus, Lower Risk (nt) as C. g. maurus, otherwise Lower Risk (lc)
States
Alaska
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Iowa
Idaho
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Maryland
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming
Distribution
Most of Canada from N British Columbia to Labrador, excluding Newfoundland; south in the Appalachians to N Georgia and NW South Carolina, in the Great Plains to N Iowa, and in the Rockies to C New Mexico and EC Arizona; extralimital isolates in NW and E P
Notes
Active at any time, but tends to be more diurnal in winter and mainly nocturnal in summer. Travels under leaf litter and fallen logs but does not construct an underground burrow system. Lives in damp forests with fallen logs, also mountain meadows, clear-