Bavarian pine vole
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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.
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class | Mammalia | |
infraclass | Eutheria | |
order | Rodentia | |
family | Cricetidae | |
genus | Microtus | |
species | M. bavaricus |