Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Cricetidae > Microtus > Microtus chrotorrhinusMicrotus chrotorrhinus (rock vole)Synonyms: Arvicola chrotorrhinus (homotypic); Microtus chrotorrhinus carolinensis; Microtus chrotorrhinus ravus Language: French The rock vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus) is a medium-sized vole found in eastern North America. It is also called the yellow-nosed vole. This species is similar in appearance to the larger Taiga vole. It has short ears and a long tail which is paler underneath. The fur is greyish-brown with grey underparts and a yellowish nose. Its length avereages 15 cm (5.9 in) long with a 5-cm tail, and it weighs about 39 g (1.4 oz). |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.84 EDGE Score: 2.18 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 39 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 80 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Gestation [1] | 20 days | | Litter Size [1] | 4 | | Litters / Year [3] | 2 | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 4.331 inches (11 cm) |
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Antietam National Battlefield |
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3263 |
Maryland, United States |
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park |
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234333 |
Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
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9859505 |
New York, Vermont, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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La Mauricie National Park |
II |
131706 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Mount Mitchell State Park |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Parc National Suisse National Park |
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Switzerland |
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Pukaskwa National Park |
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459860 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Microtus chrotorrhinus, Gordon L. Kirkland, Jr. and Frederick J. Jannett, Jr., Mammalian Species No. 180, pp. 1-5 (1982) ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Diet of the Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, Rulon W. Clark, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 494-499, 2002 ♦ 5International Flea Database♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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