Jalapan pine vole

The Jalapan pine vole (Microtus quasiater) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.

Jalapan pine vole

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Genus: Microtus
Subgenus: Pitymys
Species:
M. quasiater
Binomial name
Microtus quasiater
(Coues, 1874)

References

  1. Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T. & Vázquez, E. (2008). "Microtus quasiater". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of near threatened.
  • 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.


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