Gull Island Vole

Gull Island Vole

Taxobox
name = Gull Island Vole
status = EX
extinct = 1897
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
genus = "Microtus"
species = "M. pennsylvanicus"
subspecies = "M. p. nesophilus"
trinomial = "Microtus pennsylvanicus nesophilus"
trinomial_authority = Bailey, 1898
The Gull Island Vole ("Microtus pennsylvanicus nesophilus") is a subspecies of the Meadow Vole last collected in 1897. A ground-dwelling coastal beach grass herbivore endemic to Gull Island, New York, it disappeared after habitat destruction for naval fortifications in August 1898 for the Spanish-American War. Also, feral cats were also partly responsible in its decline. It is known from fifteen specimens in Washington, D.C.

External links

* [http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/extinctm/GulIVole.htm Extinction: Gull Island Vole UWSP GEOG358 (Heywood)]


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