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Microtus chrotorrhinus (rock vole)

Synonyms: Arvicola chrotorrhinus (homotypic); Microtus chrotorrhinus carolinensis; Microtus chrotorrhinus ravus
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

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).
View Wikipedia Record: Microtus chrotorrhinus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.84
EDGE Score: 2.18
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Attributes

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)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Atrichum undulatum (undulate atrichum moss)[1]
Cornus canadensis (Canadian bunchberry)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Tamias townsendii (Townsend's chipmunk)1

Predators

Agkistrodon contortrix (Southern Copperhead)[1]
Crotalus horridus (Timber rattlesnake (atricaudatus))[4]
Lynx rufus (Bobcat)[1]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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