Hokkaido Red-backed Vole

Hokkaido Red-backed Vole
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Myodes
Species:	M. rex
Binomial name
Myodes rex (Imaizumi, 1971)

The Hokkaido Red-backed Vole (Myodes rex) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

References

1. ^ Abe, H. & Kaneko, Y. (2008). Myodes rex. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 June 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• N. I. Abramov, A. V. Abramov and G. I. Baranova: New species of Red-Backed Vole (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) in fauna of Russia: Molecular and morphologic evidences. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, Vol. 313, No. 1, 2009, рр. 3–9