Microtus
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The genus Microtus is a group of voles found in North America and northern Europe and Asia. The genus name refers to the small ears of these animals.
These animals live in grassy areas. They are stout rodents with short ears, legs and tails. They eat green vegetation such as grasses and sedges in summer and grains, seeds, roots and bark at other times.
The complete list of species is:
- Insular Vole (Microtus abbreviatus)
- Field Vole (Microtus agrestis)
- Anatolian Vole (Microtus anatolicus)
- Common Vole (Microtus arvalis)
- Bavarian Pine Vole (Microtus bavaricus)
- Calabria Pine Vole (Microtus brachycercus)
- Beach Vole (Microtus breweri)
- Cabrera's Vole (Microtus cabrerae)
- California Vole (Microtus californicus)
- Gray-tailed Vole (Microtus canicaudus)
- Rock Vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus)
- Clarke's Vole (Microtus clarkei)
- Daghestan Pine Vole (Microtus daghestanicus)
- Doğramaci's Vole (Microtus dogramacii)
- Mediterranean Pine Vole (Microtus duodecimcostatus)
- Evorsk Vole (Microtus evoronensis)
- Felten's Vole (Microtus felteni)
- Reed Vole (Microtus fortis)
- Gerbe's Vole (Microtus gerbei)
- Narrow-headed Vole (Microtus gregalis)
- Guatemalan Vole (Microtus guatemalensis)
- Günther's Vole (Microtus guentheri)
- Tien Shan Vole (Microtus ilaeus)
- Persian Vole (Microtus irani)
- Taiwan Vole (Microtus kikuchii)
- Southern Vole (Microtus levis)
- Liechtenstein's Pine Vole (Microtus liechtensteini)
- Lacustrine Vole (Microtus limnophilus)
- Long-tailed Vole (Microtus longicaudus)
- Lusitanian Pine Vole (Microtus lusitanicus)
- Major's Pine Vole (Microtus majori)
- Maximowicz's Vole (Microtus maximowiczii)
- Mexican Vole (Microtus mexicanus)
- Middendorf's Vole (Microtus middendorffi)
- Singing Vole (Microtus miurus)
- Mongolian Vole (Microtus mongolicus)
- Montane Vole (Microtus montanus)
- Japanese Grass Vole (Microtus montebelli)
- Muisk Vole (Microtus mujanensis)
- Alpine Pine Vole (Microtus multiplex)
- Tarabundí Vole (Microtus oaxacensis)
- Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)
- Tundra Vole or Root Vole (Microtus oeconomus)
- Creeping Vole (Microtus oregoni)
- Paradox Vole (Microtus paradoxus)
- Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
- Woodland Vole (Microtus pinetorum)
- Qazvin Vole (Microtus qazvinensis)
- Jalapan Pine Vole (Microtus quasiater)
- Water Vole (Microtus richardsoni)
- Sakhalin Vole (Microtus sachalinensis)
- Savi's Pine Vole (Microtus savii)
- Schelkovnikov's Pine Vole (Microtus schelkovnikovi)
- Schidlovsky's Vole (Microtus schidlovskii)
- Social Vole (Microtus socialis)
- European Pine Vole (Microtus subterraneus)
- Tatra Pine Vole (Microtus tatricus)
- Thomas's Pine Vole (Microtus thomasi)
- Townsend's Vole (Microtus townsendii)
- Transcaspian Vole (Microtus transcaspicus)
- Zempoaltépec Vole (Microtus umbrosus)
- Taiga Vole (Microtus xanthognathus)
[edit] References
- 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.
