| Silver mountain vole | |
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| Silver mountain vole found in Himachal Pradesh, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Genus: | Alticola |
| Species: | A. argentatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Alticola argentatus (Severtzov, 1879)
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The silver mountain vole (Alticola argentatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. They are distinguished by their silver-grey pelage, long vibrissae, rootless hypsodont molars and angular skull shape. Like many mammals of the Eurasian Steppe eco-region, they are well adapted to life in high altitudes, and can be found in mountain areas of Central Asia from Saur Mountains in the north-east to Kugitang Range in the west, and to Tibet and the Himalayas in the south.[2]
- ^ Molur, S. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Alticola argentatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T949A115054150. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T949A22343032.en. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ Nadachowski, Adam; Mead, Jim I. (3 December 1999). "Alticola argentatus". Mammalian Species (625). American Society of Mammalogists: 1–4. doi:10.2307/3504506. JSTOR 3504506. S2CID 253935844.