Red-backed Mouse
Clethrionomys gapperi
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 729
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The southern red-backed vole or Gapper's red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi) is a small slender vole found in Canada and the northern United States. It is closely related to the western red-backed vole (Clethrionomys californius), which lives to the south and west of its range and which is less red with a less sharply bicolored tail.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Southern red-backed vole”.