Grey red-backed vole | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
Genus: | Craseomys |
Species: | C. rufocanus
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Binomial name | |
Craseomys rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846)
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Range of Craseomys rufocanus | |
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The grey red-backed vole or the grey-sided vole (Craseomys rufocanus) is a species of vole.[3] An adult grey red-backed vole weighs 20-50 grams. This species ranges across northern Eurasia, including northern China, the northern Korean Peninsula, and the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaidō. It is larger and longer-legged than the northern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys rutilus), which covers a similar range and it is also sympatric with the Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus).