Montane Water Vole

Montane Water Vole
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Genus:	Arvicola
Species:	A. scherman
Binomial name
Arvicola scherman Shaw, 1801

The Montane Water Vole or Arvicola scherman is a species of vole found throughout Europe, from the mountains of northern Spain through central Europe and eastwards through to central Romania. Initially regarded as a species, it was reassigned as a subspecies of terrestris before being again designated as a species by Panteleyev in 2000.

References

1. ^ Amori, G., Hutterer, R., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsain, G. & Muñoz, L.J.P (2008). Arvicola scherman. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.

Sources

• 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.
• Wilson and Reeder. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition)