Beach Vole

Beach Vole
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Microtus
Subgenus:	Mynomes
Species:	M. breweri
Binomial name
Microtus breweri (Baird, 1858)

The Beach Vole (Microtus breweri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in the United States, and its natural habitat is temperate grassland.

Muskeget Island, between Nantucket, Massachusetts and Marthas Vineyard is the only known home of the beach vole known as the Muskeget vole. There is a question whether the Muskeget vole is a unique species or a sub-species of the meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus). This vole may soon be listed as an endangered species.

References

1. ^ Linzey, A.V. & NatureServe (Hammerson, G.) (2008). Microtus breweri. 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 vulnerable.

• 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.

External links

• http://training.fws.gov/library/pubs5/necas/web_link/39_muskeget.htm