European Snow Vole

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European Snow Vole
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Chionomys Species: C. nivalis
Binomial name
Chionomys nivalis (Martins, 1842)

The European Snow Vole or Snow Vole (Chionomys nivalis) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It it found in Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, and Ukraine. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland.

[edit] References

• Amori, G. 1996. Chionomys nivalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
• 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.