HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Alticola
--> SUBGENUS Alticola
SPECIES Alticola (Alticola) montosa
Author: | True, 1894. | Citation: | Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 17: 11. | Common Name: | Kashmir Mountain Vole | Type Locality: | N India, C Kashmir, 11,000 ft (3353 m). | Distribution: | Jammu and Kashmir, ca. 2450-4000 m (Agrawal, 2000; Hinton, 1926a; Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992). | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Subgenus Alticola, A. roylei-A. argentatus species group (Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992). Usually incorporated in A. roylei (Corbet, 1978c; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977), but the diagnostic traits of montosa clearly distinguish it from geographically adjacent roylei, as Hinton (1926a) long ago noted and Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992) verified. Reviewed by Agrawal (2000). |
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