Microtus arvalis
(Pallas, 1779)
Common Vole
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
Order | : Rodentia |
Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
Superfamily | : Muroidea |
Family | : Cricetidae |
Subfamily | : Arvicolinae |
Tribe | : Microtini |
Genus | : Microtus |
Subgenus | : Microtus |
Species status
Authority citation
Pallas, P.S. 1779. Fasciculus II. Pp. 71–388 in Pallas, P.S. 1778-1779. Novae species quadrupedum e glirium ordine cum illustrationibus variis complurium ex hoc ordine animalium. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 388 pp.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15494906Original name as described
Mus arvalis
Other common names
Guernsey Vole · Orkney Vole
Type material
ZIN S. 56750
Type kind
neotype
Type locality
"Per omnen [= throughout] Europam & Russiam." Based on neotype selection, restricted by V. M. Malygin and V. N. Yatsenko in 1986 to Pushkin, Leningrad (= St. Petersburg) Oblast, Russia.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Portugal · Spain · France · Belgium · Netherlands · Luxembourg · Switzerland · Liechtenstein · Italy · Austria · Germany · Denmark · Czech Republic · Croatia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Montenegro · Albania · North Macedonia · Bulgaria · Serbia · Kosovo · Slovenia · Slovakia · Hungary · Romania · Moldova · Ukraine · Poland · Belarus · Lithuania · Latvia · Estonia · Finland · Russia
Taxonomy notes
previously included M. obscurus; previously included the name mystacinus, which is now applied to the species previously known as M. levis
Taxonomy notes citation
Tougard, C., Montuire, S., Volobouev, V., Markova, E., Contet, J., Aniskin, V., & Quere, J. P. (2013). Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 108(2), 434-452. · Mahmoudi, A., Darvish, J., Aliabadian, M., Khosravi, M., Golenishchev, F. N., & KRYŠTUFEK, B. (2014). Chromosomal diversity in the genus Microtus at its southern distributional margin in Iran. Folia Zool, 63(4), 290-295.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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