Middendorf's vole

Middendorf's vole
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Genus:	Microtus
Subgenus:	Alexandromys
Species:	M. middendorffi
Binomial name
	Microtus middendorffi; (Poliakov, 1881)
Synonyms
	hyperboreus Vinogradov, 1934; obscurus (Middendorf, 1853); ryphaeus Heptner, 1948; swerevi Scalon, 1935; tasensis Skalon, 1935; uralensis Skalon, 1935;

Middendorf's vole (Microtus middendorffi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Russia, most commonly north Siberia.

The common name commemorates Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (1815–1894), a German–Russian naturalist who traveled extensively in Siberia. It is also known as the north Siberian vole or Altai vole.[2]

This vole, along with Microtus gregalis, is one of the primary preys of the Arctic fox on the Yamal Peninsula.[3]

References

Tsytsulina, K.; Formozov, N. & Sheftel, B. (2008). "Microtus middendorffi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2009.old-form url Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
"Microtus middendorffii". Animal Diversity Web. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
Terekhina, Alexandra (2021). "The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal". European Journal of Wildlife Research: 4.

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.

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[iucn-1] Tsytsulina, K.; Formozov, N. & Sheftel, B. (2008). "Microtus middendorffi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2009.old-form url Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.

[2] "Microtus middendorffii". Animal Diversity Web. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[3] Terekhina, Alexandra (2021). "The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal". European Journal of Wildlife Research: 4.