European Pine Vole

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European Pine Vole
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Microtus Subgenus: Microtus Species: M. subterraneus
Binomial name
Microtus subterraneus (de Selys-Longchamps, 1836)

The European Pine Vole (Microtus subterraneus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Republic of, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine.

[edit] References

• Amori, G. 1996. Microtus subterraneus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.