#0188 · 🦊 mammals

Grey Red-backed Vole

Craseomys rufocanus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © 2009 Zbyszek Boratynski · CC BY 4.0
2. © Kjell M. Sarre · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Kjell M. Sarre · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © 科学出版社 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. г. Дальнегорск, Приморский край, Россия:© Gularjanz Grigoryi Mihajlovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Таймырский Долгано-Ненецкий р-н, Красноярский край, Россия:© Dmitry Boldyrev · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. Holmfjell, Tana, Norge:© Kjell M. Sarre · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Таймырский Долгано-Ненецкий р-н, Красноярский край, Россия:© Игорь Поспелов · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ключи:© Валерия Ковалева · CC BY 4.0
10. Holmfjell, Tana, Norge:© Kjell M. Sarre · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The grey red-backed vole or the grey-sided vole ( Craseomys rufocanus ) is a species of vole. An adult grey red-backed vole weighs 20-50 grams. This species ranges across northern Eurasia, including northern China, the northern Korean Peninsula, and the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaidō. It is larger and longer-legged than the northern red-backed vole ( Clethrionomys rutilus ), which covers a similar range and it is also sympatric with the Norwegian lemming ( Lemmus lemmus ).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 196iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
196 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1846 (180 years ago).