Calabria Pine Vole

Calabria Pine Vole
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Microtus
Subgenus:	Terricola
Species:	M. brachycercus
Binomial name
Microtus brachycercus (Lehmann, 1961)

The Calabria Pine Vole (Microtus brachycercus) is a vole found in southern and central Italy initially described by Lehmann as a subspecies of M. savii. Genetic tests in the Calabrian region found that, although similar, the X chromosome is larger than that of samples of M. savii found elsewhere in Italy and the Y chromosome is twice the size, leading Galleni in 1994 to designate M. brachycercus as a separate species.

References

1. ^ Amori, G. (2008). Microtus brachycercus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 June 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.

• D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore..