Microtus rozianus

(du Bocage, 1865)

Portuguese Field 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 : Euarvicola

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Mem. Ac. Real. Sci. de Lisboa, j, 2: 7

Original name as described

Arvicola rozianus

Type locality

Geria, near Coimbra, Portugal.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Portugal · Spain

Taxonomy notes

split from M. agrestis

Taxonomy notes citation

Paupério, J., Herman, J. S., Melo‐Ferreira, J., Jaarola, M., Alves, P. C., & Searle, J. B. (2012). Cryptic speciation in the field vole: a multilocus approach confirms three highly divergent lineages in E urasia. Molecular Ecology, 21(24), 6015-6032.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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