Arvicolinae

The Arvicolinae are a subfamily of rodents that includes the voles, lemmings, and muskrats. They are most closely related to the other subfamilies in the Cricetidae (comprising the hamsters and New World rats and mice). Some authorities place the subfamily Arvicolinae in the family Muridae along with all other members of the superfamily Muroidea. Some refer to the subfamily as the Microtinae (yielding the adjective "microtine")[3] or rank the taxon as a full family, the Arvicolidae. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Rodents
Bavarian pine vole	Japanese grass vole	Muskrat	True lemming

phylum	Chordata	The Bavarian pine vole(Microtus bavaricus) is a vole from the Austrian, Italian, and Bavarian Alpsof Europe. It lived in moist meadows at elevations of 600-1,000 metres. There are 23 museum specimens of this species. This rodent was previously known from only one location in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, which has since been altered by the construction of a hospital in the 1980s. No specimens of this rodentwere recorded after 1962 and it was thought to be extinct. However, a population apparently belonging to this species was discovered in 2000 in Northern Tyrol, just across the German-Austrian border. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Voles, lemmings and muskrats
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Rodentia
family	Cricetidae
genus	Microtus
species	M. bavaricus

phylum	Chordata	The Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Japan. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Voles, lemmings and muskrats
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Rodentia
family	Cricetidae
genus	Microtus
species	M. montebelli

phylum	Chordata	The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America, and introduced in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The muskrat is found in wetlands over a wide range of climates and habitats. It has important effects on the ecology of wetlands[2] and is a resource of food and fur for humans. It is an introduced species in some of its present range. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Voles, lemmings and muskrats
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Rodentia
family	Cricetidae
genus	Ondatra
species	O. zibethicus

phylum	Chordata	The genus Lemmus contains several species of lemming sometimes referred to as the true lemmings. They are distributed throughout the Holarctic, particularly in the Palearctic. Head and body is 10-13.5 cm, and tail length is 18–26 mm. Weight ranges from 40-112 g. Populations can fluctuate widely and mass migrations do take place. This mass migration is probably the source of the myth that lemmings commit mass suicide. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Voles, lemmings and muskrats
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Rodentia
family	Cricetidae
genus	Lemmus

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