Mandarin Vole

About this species

Range

Central China and the southern and central Korean Peninsula

The Mandarin vole, Lasiopodomys mandarinus, is a member of the arvicoline rodents in the family Cricetidae. Mammal catalogues recognize it as a distinct living species and retain the combination established in modern classifications, while older literature may place it under other vole genera. Its documented distribution includes central China and the southern and central Korean Peninsula. These range and taxonomy statements are the principal well-supported facts in the accessible species accounts (Mammal Species of the World; Mammal Diversity Database).

The opened sources do not provide a sufficiently detailed species-level account of the Mandarin vole's Korean habitat, food, reproduction, measurements or daily activity. Those features are not supplied from other Lasiopodomys, because related voles can differ ecologically and geographically. Korean records should therefore be interpreted using specimens or current diagnostic keys rather than common-name assumptions. This deliberately limited profile establishes the accepted species and range while leaving natural-history fields open for later evidence from a Korean survey or dedicated species study (Mammal Diversity Database; Korean mammal review).

Description: Wildlife of Korea guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com)