These animals live in grassy areas. They are stout rodents with short ears, legs and tails. They eat green vegetation such as grasses and sedges in summer and grains, seeds, roots and bark at other times.

The complete list of species is:

• Insular Vole (Microtus abbreviatus)
• California Vole (Microtus californicus)
• Rock Vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus)
• Long-tailed Vole (Microtus longicaudus)
• Mexican Vole (Microtus mexicanus)
• Singing Vole (Microtus miurus)
• Water Vole (Microtus richardsoni)
• Zempoaltépec Vole (Microtus umbrosus)
• Taiga Vole (Microtus xanthognathus)

• Field Vole (Microtus agrestis)
• Anatolian Vole (Microtus anatolicus)
• Common Vole (Microtus arvalis)
• Cabrera's Vole (Microtus cabrerae)
• Doğramaci's Vole (Microtus dogramacii)
• Günther's Vole (Microtus guentheri)
• Tien Shan Vole (Microtus ilaeus)
• Persian Vole (Microtus irani)
• Southern Vole (Microtus levis)
• Paradox Vole (Microtus paradoxus)
• Qazvin Vole (Microtus qazvinensis)
• Schidlovsky's Vole (Microtus schidlovskii)
• Social Vole (Microtus socialis)
• European Pine Vole (Microtus subterraneus)
• Transcaspian Vole (Microtus transcaspicus)

• Bavarian Pine Vole (''Microtus bavaricus)
• Calabria Pine Vole (Microtus brachycercus)
• Daghestan Pine Vole (Microtus daghestanicus)
• Mediterranean Pine Vole (Microtus duodecimcostatus)
• Felten's Vole (Microtus felteni)
• Liechtenstein's Pine Vole (Microtus liechtensteini)
• Lusitanian Pine Vole (Microtus lusitanicus)
• Major's Pine Vole (Microtus majori)
• Alpine Pine Vole (Microtus multiplex)
• Savi's Pine Vole (Microtus savii)
• Tatra Pine Vole (Microtus tatricus)
• Thomas's Pine Vole (Microtus thomasi)

• Beach Vole (Microtus breweri)
• Gray-tailed Vole (Microtus canicaudus)
• Montane Vole (Microtus montanus)
• Creeping Vole (Microtus oregoni)
• Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
• Townsend's Vole (Microtus townsendii)

• Clarke's Vole (Microtus clarkei)
• Evorsk Vole (Microtus evoronensis)
• Reed Vole (Microtus fortis)
• Gerbe's Vole (Microtus gerbei)
• Taiwan Vole (Microtus kikuchii)
• Lacustrine Vole (Microtus limnophilus)
• Maximowicz's Vole (Microtus maximowiczii)
• Middendorf's Vole (Microtus middendorffi)
• Mongolian Vole (Microtus mongolicus)
• Japanese Grass Vole (Microtus montebelli)
• Muisk Vole (Microtus mujanensis)
• Tundra Vole or Root Vole (Microtus oeconomus)
• Microtus oeconomus arenicola
• Sakhalin Vole (Microtus sachalinensis)

• Narrow-headed Vole (Microtus gregalis)

• Guatemalan Vole (Microtus guatemalensis)
• Tarabundí Vole (Microtus oaxacensis)
• Woodland Vole (Microtus pinetorum)
• Jalapan Pine Vole (Microtus quasiater)

• Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)

• Schelkovnikov's Pine Vole (Microtus schelkovnikovi)

References

• 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.

External links

• Genus Microtus