Alexandromys oeconomus - #781

Root Vole
Oblique view. Formerly Microtus oeconomus.
Geographic Distribution

Holarctic in tundra, northern taiga, and grassy meadows. In Palearctic, from Fennoscandia across N European Russia and Siberia to Kamchatka Peninsula and borderlands of Bering Sea; south through through Baltic region to NE Germany, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, N Kazakhstan, transbaikal region, N Mongolia, NE China (N Nei Mongol), and discontinuously in the Ussuri region bordering the Japanese Sea, including, Sakhalin and Kurile Isls; relict populations in Netherlands, S Norway and C Sweden, Finnish Baltic Coast, E Austria, SW Slovakia, and W Hungary; absent from the British Isls but present on St. Lawrence Isl in Bering Sea. In Nearctic, from Alaska through Yukon Territory, eastwards to W Northwest Territories, and southwards to extreme NW British Columbia and Alexander Archipelago, Alaska

Order/Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Alexandromys
Specific Epithet
oeconomus
Image Location
Slovakia, Bratislava , Zitny ostrov
Image Date
1983
Photographer
M Andera