Guatemalan Vole

Guatemalan Vole
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Microtus
Subgenus:	Pitymys
Species:	M. guatemalensis
Binomial name
Microtus guatemalensis Merriam, 1898

The Guatemalan vole (Microtus guatemalensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico in montane pine-oak forest and meadow at elevations between 2600 to 3100 m.^[1] It is terrestrial and probably diurnal or crepuscular.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Microtus guatemalensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/13432. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 

• Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 999. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000265.