Insular vole
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| Species: | M. abbreviatus
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| Microtus abbreviatus Miller, 1899
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The insular vole or St. Matthew Island vole (Microtus abbreviatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It occurs only on St. Matthew Island and the adjacent Hall Island, in Alaska.[1] On these Bering Sea islands, insular voles live in damp lowland areas, on the lower slopes of mountains, and on rye grass-covered beaches. They are diurnal and eat plant matter. Birds and Arctic foxes (which are the only other mammals on the island) prey on the voles.[2]
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN2009.2
- ^ "North American Mammals: Insular Vole". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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