Microtus

Microtus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - recent
Lusitanian pine vole
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Arvicolini
Genus:	Microtus Schrank, 1798
Species
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Microtus is a genus of voles found in North America, Europe and northern Asia. The genus name refers to the small ears of these animals. About 62 species are placed in the genus. They are stout rodents with short ears, legs and tails. They eat green vegetation such as grasses and sedges in summer, and grains, seeds, root and bark at other times. The genus is also called "meadow voles". (ITIS database)

The species are:

• Insular vole (M. abbreviatus)
• California vole (M. californicus)
• Rock vole (M. chrotorrhinus)
• Long-tailed vole (M. longicaudus)
• Mexican vole (M. mexicanus)
• Singing vole (M. miurus)
• Mogollon vole (M. mogollonensis)
• Water vole (M. richardsoni)
• Zempoaltépec vole (M. umbrosus)
• Taiga vole (M. xanthognathus)

Subgenus Microtus

• Short-tailed field vole (M. agrestis)
• Anatolian vole (M. anatolicus)
• Common vole (M. arvalis)
• Cabrera's vole (M. cabrerae)
• Doğramaci's vole (M. dogramacii)
• (M. elbeyli)
• Günther's vole (M. guentheri)
• (M. hartingii)
• Tien Shan vole (M. ilaeus)
• Persian vole (M. irani)
• (M. lavernedii)
• (M. kermanensis)
• (M. lydius)
• East European vole (M. mystacinus)
• Altai vole (M. obscurus)
• Paradox vole (M. paradoxus)
• Qazvin vole (M. qazvinensis)
• (M. rosianus)
• Schidlovsky's vole (M. schidlovskii)
• Social vole (M. socialis)
• Transcaspian vole (M. transcaspicus)

Subgenus Blanfordimys

• Afghan vole (M. afghanus)
• Bucharian vole (M. bucharicus)
• Juniper vole (M. juldaschi)

Subgenus Terricola

• Bavarian pine vole (M. bavaricus)
• Calabria pine vole (M. brachycercus)
• Daghestan pine vole (M. daghestanicus)
• Mediterranean pine vole (M. duodecimcostatus)
• Felten's vole (M. felteni)
• Gerbe's vole (M. gerbii)
• Liechtenstein's pine vole (M. liechtensteini)
• Lusitanian pine vole (M. lusitanicus)
• Major's pine vole (M. majori)
• Alpine pine vole (M. multiplex)
• (M. nebrodensis)
• Savi's pine vole (M. savii)
• European pine vole (M. subterraneus)
• Tatra pine vole (M. tatricus)
• Thomas's pine vole (M. thomasi)

Subgenus Mynomes

• Gray-tailed vole (M. canicaudus)
• Western meadow vole (M. drummondi)
• Florida salt marsh vole (M. dukecampbelli)
• Montane vole (M. montanus)
• Creeping vole (M. oregoni)
• Eastern meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus)
• Townsend's vole (M. townsendii)

Subgenus Alexandromys

• Clarke's vole (M. clarkei)
• Evorsk vole (M. evoronensis)
• Reed vole (M. fortis)
• Taiwan vole (M. kikuchii)
• Lacustrine vole (M. limnophilus)
• Maximowicz's vole (M. maximowiczii)
• Middendorf's vole (M. middendorffi)
• Mongolian vole (M. mongolicus)
• Japanese grass vole (M. montebelli)
• Muisk vole (M. mujanensis)
• Tundra vole or root vole (M. oeconomus) - several subspecies
• Sakhalin vole (M. sachalinensis)

Subgenus Stenocranius

• Narrow-headed vole (M. gregalis)

Subgenus Pitymys

• Guatemalan vole (M. guatemalensis)
• Tarabundí vole (M. oaxacensis)
• Woodland vole (M. pinetorum)
• Jalapan pine vole (M. quasiater)

Subgenus Pedomys

• Prairie vole (M. ochrogaster)

Subgenus Hyrcanicola

• Schelkovnikov's pine vole (M. schelkovnikovi)

Extinct species[]

• †Tyrrhenian vole (M. henseli)

References[]

• Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. (online database version entry for Muroidea).

External links[]

• Genus Microtus