Southern Red-backed Vole

Myodes gapperi

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The southern red-backed vole or Gapper's red-backed vole (Myodes gapperi) is a small slender vole found in Canada and the northern United States. It is closely related to the western red-backed vole (Myodes californius), which lives to the south and west of its range and which is less red with a less sharply bicolored tail.

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  1. (c) Phil Myers, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://animaldiversity.org/collections/contributors/phil_myers/classic/clethbest/medium.jpg
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myodes_gapperi

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