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

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

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.

Original 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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