Craseomys rufocanus - #4782
Gray Red-backed Vole
Formerly Myodes rufocanus.
Geographic Distribution
N Palearctic from Scandinavia through Siberia to Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and Taraku (south of Shikotan Isl in the S Kuril Isls) in Russia, south to S Ural Mtns, the Altai Mtns, Transbaikal, N China (NW Xinjiang in the west, and Nei Mongol, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang in the NE), N portion of Korean peninsula, N Japan (Hokkaido and the offshore islets of Rishiri, Daikoku, Teuri, and Yagishiri), and the S Kurile Isls of Kunashiri, Shikotan, Shibotsu and others.
Order/Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Craseomys
Specific Epithet
rufocanus
Image Location
Russia, Moscow, Tschernogolowka Research Station of Academy of Sciences
Image Date
12 July 2001
Photographer
KD Rudloff