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Southern Red-backed Vole

Clethrionomys gapperi

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) lenachiasson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.

United States	17,582
Canada	13,926
Ontario	4,676
Alaska	2,774
Quebec	2,437
Nunavut	2,135
Washington	2,123
Minnesota	2,004
New York	1,367
Colorado	1,224

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Mammals · Mammalia
Order	Rodents · Rodentia
Family	Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings, and Allies · Cricetidae
Genus	Red-backed Voles · Clethrionomys

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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