Lake Baikal mountain vole
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Alticola olchonensis

The Lake Baikal mountain vole or Olkhon mountain vole (Alticola olchonensis ) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found principally on the Olkhon and Ogoi islands on Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia. While it was originally described as a species, Pavlinov and Rossolimo reassigned it as a subspecies of A. tuvinicus in 1987 before reinstating it as a species in 1998.

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References

1. Lake Baikal mountain vole Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal_mountain_vole
2. Lake Baikal mountain vole on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136648/115211010

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