Alticola
| Mountain voles Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
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| Alticola stoliczkanus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Clethrionomyini |
| Genus: | Alticola Blanford, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Arvicola stoliczkanus Blanford, 1875
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Alticola, also known as the mountain vole, is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Their fur is pale ash-brown. They prefer environments of high elevation (often in remote and extreme habitats). They are widely distributed across the mountains of Central Asia, and are found in steppe, rocky montane, and alpine forests.
They are one of the least known groups of voles in evolutionary and life history.