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Lake Baikal mountain vole
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Genus:	Alticola
Species:	A. olchonensis
Binomial name
Alticola olchonensis Litvinov, 1960
Synonyms
Alticola baicalensis Alticola tuvinicus olchonensis Alticola argentatus olchonensis Aschizomys olchonensis

The Lake Baikal mountain vole or Olkhon mountain vole (Alticola olchonensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found principally on the Olkhon and Ogoi islands on Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia. It is also found in a small part of the bordering mainland Russia, on the Baikal coast of the Irkutsk Oblast. It was originally described as a subspecies of the silver mountain vole. Since then, it has been synonymized with A. roylei in 1978, A. tuvinicus, and A. macrotis before reinstating it as a species. It is likely a sister species to A. tuvinicus.

References

1. IUCN (2016). "Alticola olchonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
2. Kryštufek, Boris; Shenbrot, Georgy I. (July 2022). Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region (1 ed.). Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-961-286-611-2.

Further reading

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005), "Superfamily Muroidea", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 894–1531, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
• Bodrov, S.Y., Kostygov, A.Y., Rudneva, L.V. et al. Revision of the taxonomic position of the Olkhon mountain vole (Rodentia, Cricetidae) Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci (2016) 43: 136. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359016020035

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