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Mountain voles Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Genus:	Alticola Blanford, 1881
Species
Alticola albicaudus Alticola argentatus Alticola barakshin Alticola lemminus Alticola macrotis Alticola montosa Alticola olchonensis Alticola roylei Alticola semicanus Alticola stoliczkanus Alticola strelzowi Alticola tuvinicus

Alticola is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

It contains the following species:

Subgenus Alticola
- White-tailed Mountain Vole (Alticola albicauda)
- Silver Mountain Vole (Alticola argentatus)
- Gobi Altai Mountain Vole (Alticola barakshin)
- Central Kashmir Vole (Alticola montosa)
- Royle's Mountain Vole (Alticola roylei)
- Mongolian Silver Vole (Alticola semicanus)
- Stoliczka's Mountain Vole (Alticola stoliczkanus)
- Tuva Silver Vole (Alticola tuvinicus)
Subgenus Aschizomys
- Lemming Vole (Alticola lemminus)
- Large-eared Vole (Alticola macrotis)
- Lake Baikal Mountain Vole (Alticola olchonensis)
Subgenus Platycranius
- Flat-headed Vole (Alticola strelzowi)

References

Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005), "Superfamily Muroidea", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., 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

Extant species of subfamily Arvicolinae

Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Infraclass: Eutheria · Superorder: Euarchontoglires · Order: Rodentia · Family: Cricetidae

Arvicolini

Arvicola (Water voles)	European Water Vole (A. amphibius) · Southwestern Water Vole (A. sapidus) · Montane Water Vole (A. scherman)

Blanfordimys	Afghan Vole (B. afghanus) · Bucharian Vole (B. bucharicus)

Chionomys (Snow voles)	Caucasian Snow Vole (C. gud) · European Snow Vole (C. nivalis) · Robert's Snow Vole (C. roberti)

Lasiopodomys	Brandt's Vole (L. brandtii) · Plateau Vole (L. fuscus) · Mandarin Vole (L. mandarinus)

Lemmiscus	Sagebrush Vole (L. curtatus)

Microtus (Voles)	Subgenus Microtus: Field Vole (M. agrestis) · Anatolian Vole (M. anatolicus) · Common Vole (M. arvalis) · Cabrera's Vole (M. cabrerae) · Doğramaci's Vole (M. dogramacii) · Günther's Vole (M. guentheri) · Tien Shan Vole (M. ilaeus) · Persian Vole (M. irani) · Southern Vole (M. levis) · Paradox Vole (M. paradoxus) · Qazvin Vole (M. qazvinensis) · Schidlovsky's Vole (M. schidlovskii) · Social Vole (M. socialis) · European Pine Vole (M. subterraneus) · Transcaspian Vole (M. transcaspicus) Subgenus Terricola: Bavarian Pine Vole (M. bavaricus) · Calabria Pine Vole (M. brachycercus) · Daghestan Pine Vole (M. daghestanicus) · Mediterranean Pine Vole (M. duodecimcostatus) · Felten's Vole (M. felteni) · Liechtenstein's Pine Vole (M. liechtensteini) · Lusitanian Pine Vole (M. lusitanicus) · Major's Pine Vole (M. majori) · Alpine Pine Vole (M. multiplex) · Savi's Pine Vole (M. savii) · Tatra Pine Vole (M. tatricus) · Thomas's Pine Vole (M. thomasi) Subgenus Mynomes: Beach Vole (M. breweri) · Gray-tailed Vole (M. canicaudus) · Montane Vole (M. montanus) · Creeping Vole (M. oregoni) · Meadow Vole (M. pennsylvanicus) · Townsend's Vole (M. townsendii) Subgenus Alexandromys: Clarke's Vole (M. clarkei) · Evorsk Vole (M. evoronensis) · Reed Vole (M. fortis) · Gerbe's Vole (M. gerbei) · Taiwan Vole (M. kikuchii) · Lacustrine Vole (M. limnophilus) · Maximowicz's Vole (M. maximowiczii) · Middendorf's Vole (M. middendorffi) · Mongolian Vole (M. mongolicus) · Japanese Grass Vole (M. montebelli) · Muisk Vole (M. mujanensis) · Tundra Vole (M. oeconomus) · Sakhalin Vole (M. sachalinensis) Subgenus Stenocranius: Narrow-headed Vole (M. gregalis) Subgenus Pitymys: Guatemalan Vole (M. guatemalensis) · Tarabundí Vole (M. oaxacensis) · Woodland Vole (M. pinetorum) · Jalapan Pine Vole (M. quasiater) Subgenus Pedomys: Prairie Vole (M. ochrogaster) Subgenus Hyrcanicola: Schelkovnikov's Pine Vole (M. schelkovnikovi) incertae sedis: Insular Vole (M. abbreviatus) · California Vole (M. californicus) · Rock Vole (M. chrotorrhinus) · Long-tailed Vole (M. longicaudus) · Mexican Vole (M. mexicanus) · Singing Vole (M. miurus) · Water Vole (M. richardsoni) · Zempoaltépec Vole (M. umbrosus) · Taiga Vole (M. xanthognathus)

Neodon (Mountain voles)	Juniper Vole (N. juldaschi) · Chinese Scrub Vole (N. irene) · Sikkim Mountain Vole (N. sikimensis) · Forrest's Mountain Vole (N. forresti)

Phaiomys	Blyth's Vole (P. leucurus)

Proedromys	Duke of Bedford's Vole (P. bedfordi) · P. liangshanensis

Volemys	Szechuan Vole (V. millicens) · Marie's Vole (V. musseri)

Dicrostonychini
(Collared lemmings)

Dicrostonyx

Ellobiusini
(mole voles)

Ellobius
(Mole voles)

Alai Mole Vole (E. alaicus) · Southern Mole Vole (E. fuscocapillus) · Transcaucasian Mole Vole (E. lutescens) · Northern Mole Vole (E. talpinus) · Zaisan Mole Vole (E. tancrei)

Lagurini
(Steppe lemmings)

Eolagurus	Yellow Steppe Lemming (E. luteus) · Przewalski's Steppe Lemming (E. przewalskii)

Lagurus	Steppe Lemming (L. lagurus)

Lemmini
(Lemmings)

Lemmus (True lemmings)	Amur Lemming (L. amurensis) · Norway lemming (L. lemmus) · Siberian Brown Lemming (L. sibiricus) · North American Brown Lemming (L. trimucronatus) · Wrangel Island Lemming (L. portenkoi)

Myopus	Wood Lemming (M. schisticolor)

Synaptomys (Bog lemmings)	Northern Bog Lemming (S. borealis) · Southern Bog Lemming (S. cooperi)

Myodini

Alticola (Voles from Central Asia)	Subgenus Alticola: White-tailed Mountain Vole (A. albicauda) · Silver Mountain Vole (A. argentatus) · Gobi Altai Mountain Vole (A. barakshin) · Central Kashmir Vole (A. montosa) · Royle's Mountain Vole (A. roylei) · Mongolian Silver Vole (A. semicanus) · Stolička's Mountain Vole (A. stoliczkanus) · Tuva Silver Vole (A. tuvinicus) Subgenus Aschizomys: Lemming Vole (A. lemminus) · Large-eared Vole (A. macrotis) · Lake Baikal Mountain Vole (A. olchonensis) Subgenus Platycranius: Flat-headed Vole (A. strelzowi)

Caryomys	Ganzu Vole (C. eva) · Kolan Vole (C. inez)

Eothenomys (Voles from East Asia)	Kachin Red-backed Vole (E. cachinus) · Pratt's Vole (E. chinensis) · Southwest China Vole (E. custos) · Père David's Vole (E. melanogaster) · Yunnan Red-backed Vole (E. miletus) · Chaotung Vole (E. olitor) · Yulungshan Vole (E. proditor) · Ward's Red-backed Vole (E. wardi)

Hyperacrius (Voles from Pakistan)	True's Vole (H. fertilis) · Murree Vole (H. wynnei)

Myodes (Red-backed voles)	Japanese Red-Backed Vole (M. andersoni) · Western Red-backed Vole (M. californicus) · Tien Shan Red-backed Vole (M. centralis) · Southern Red-backed Vole (M. gapperi) · Bank Vole (M. glareolus) · Imaizumi's Red-backed Vole (M. imaizumii) · Royal Vole (M. regulus) · Hokkaido Red-backed Vole (M. rex) · Grey Red-backed Vole (M. rufocanus) · Northern Red-backed Vole (M. rutilus) · Shansei Vole (M. shanseius) · Smith's Vole (M. smithii)

Neofibrini

Neofiber

Round-tailed Muskrat (N. alleni)

Ondatrini

Ondatra

Muskrat (O. zibethicus)

Pliomyini

Dinaromys

Balkan Snow Vole (D. bogdanovi)

Prometheomyini

Prometheomys

Long-clawed Mole Vole (P. schaposchnikowi)

incertae sedis

Arborimus (Tree voles)	White-footed Vole (A. albipes) · Red Tree Vole (A. longicaudus) · California Red Tree Mouse (A. pomo)

Phenacomys (Heather voles)	Western Heather Vole (P. intermedius) · Eastern Heather Vole (P. ungava)

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