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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Alticola
--> SUBGENUS Alticola
SPECIES Alticola (Alticola) roylei
| Author: | Gray, 1842. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [ser. 1], 10: 265. | | Common Name: | Royle’s Mountain Vole | | Type Locality: | India, Kumaon. | | Distribution: | W Himalayas, 2600-3900 m, from Kulu Valley in Himachal Pradesh to N Kumaon in Uttar Pradesh, N India (Agrawal, 2000). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Subgenus Alticola. Once considered the broadest-ranging species of Alticola in central Asia, encompassing A. argentatus and many of its synonyms (Corbet, 1978c; Ellerman, 1961; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). With removal of the latter (Rossolimo, 1989; Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992), the geographic and morphological definition of A. roylei conforms to that presented by Hinton (1926a) and Ellerman (1941). |
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