Clethrionomys rutilus - #4797
Northern Red-backed Vole
Formerly Myodes rutilus.
Geographic Distribution
Holarctic—in Old World, from N Scandinavia east to Chukotski Peninsula, and south to N Kazakhstan, Transbaikalia, Mongolia, N China (NW Xinjiang in the west, Nei Mongol and Ningxia in northcentral, and Jilin and Heilongjiang in the northeast; extreme N Korean Peninsula, and Sakhalin and Hokkaido Isls; St. Lawrence Isl, Bering Sea; in New World, from Alaska east to Hudson Bay, and south to N Alaska Panhandle, N British Columbia, and NE Manitoba, Canada.
Order/Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Clethrionomys
Specific Epithet
rutilus
Image Location
Russia, Moscow, Tschernogolowka Research Station of Academy of Sciences
Image Date
12 July 2001
Photographer
KD Rudloff