Felten vole
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The Felten-Kleinwühlmaus ( Microtus felteni ) is a little explored rodent from the genus of voles ( Microtus ).
features
The head-trunk length is 83 to 105 mm, the tail length 23 to 39 mm and the weight 16 to 28 g. The Felten vole is a small species with short ears and small eyes. The short tail is 25 to 33 percent of the head-trunk length. The females have two pairs of inguinal teats. The long, soft fur is dark brown on the top and gray or silvery on the belly.
distribution and habitat
The feline small vole occurs in the Balkans region in southern Serbia, Kosovo, western Macedonia, Albania and northwestern Greece. It inhabits open habitats, including arable land, fields, pastures, forest edges and clearings at altitudes of 40 to 2050 m.
Way of life
The Felten vole has a predominantly nocturnal way of life. She does not hibernate. Sexually mature females were collected from June to October. Three pregnant females had two embryos each. Nothing is known about their feeding behavior.
Systematics
The Felten vole was described by Franz Malec and Gerhard Storch in 1963 as a subspecies Pitymys savii felteni of the Italian vole ( Microtus savii , syn .: Pitymys savii ). In 1976 she received art status from Boris Petrov, Slobodan Zivkovic and Desanka Rimsa. In 1982 it was placed in the genus Microtus by Jochen Niethammer . The art epithet honors the German zoologist Heinz Felten , the mentor of Malec and Storch.
status
The Felten Vole is confined to a fragmented area of 40,000 m². It is rare and there is some evidence of population decline in the southern areas of its range. In Greece the population is falling. An estimated 20 to 25 percent decline over the past ten years. In Albania, the Felten-Kleinwühlmaus is 30 times less frequently than the sympatric occurring Balkan Kleinwühlmaus ( Microtus thomasi ). However, nothing is known about the status of populations in the northern parts of the region. The IUCN currently classifies the species in the category of “ data deficient ” , as more further information about the population, habitat requirements and way of life is needed in order to be able to adequately determine the status.
literature
- G. Amori, W. Bogdanowicz, B. Krystufek , AJ Mitchell-Jones, PJH Reijnders, F. Spitzenberger, M. Stubbe, JBM Thissen, V. Vohralik, J. Zima: The Atlas of European Mammals Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN 978-0856611308 , pp. 234-235
- Ulyses Pardiñas, Dennisse Ruelas, Jorge Brito, Lisa Bradley, Robert Bradley, Nicté Ordóñez Garza, Boris Kryštufek, Joseph Cook, Erika Cuéllar Soto, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Gregory Shenbrot, Elisandra Chiquito, Alexandre Percequillo, Joyce Prado, Rudolf Haslauer Patton, Livia León-Paniagua: Family Cricetidae (True Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings and New World Rats and Mice) In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7: Rodents II, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2017, ISBN 978-84-16728-04-6 , p. 347
Web links
- Microtus felteni in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2017.3. Posted by: Mitsainas, G. & Kryštufek, B., 2008. Accessed February 26, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Malec and Gerhard Storch Kleinsäuger (Mammalia) from Macedonia, Yugoslavia. Senckenbergiana Biologica 44 (3), 1963, pp. 155-173
- ↑ Boris Petrov, Slobodan Zivkovic, Desanka Rimsa: About the independence of the small voles Pitymys felteni Senckenbergiana Biologica 57 (1/3), 1976, pp. 1-10
- ↑ Jochen Niethammer: Microtus felteni In: Niethammer J., Krapp F. 1982 (Ed.) Handbook of Mammals in Europe. Volume 2/1 Rodentia II, Wiesbaden (Germany): Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 438–441.