The Tarabundí vole (''Microtus oaxacensis''), a medium-large blackish brown vole, is a species of

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...

in the family

Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At over 870 species, it is either the largest or second-largest family ...

. It is found only in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, originating from Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, one of the only other species from Oaxaca besides the Microtus mexicanus. The Microtus oaxacensis habitats themselves in disturbed vegetations that consist of different grasses and wild strawberries in cloud forest and pine forest, and often can be found living by the highway margins of Tuxtepec, where the cleaning of these vegetations by the highways put the vole at risk, making them vulnerable to extinction. Their habitats provide their diet of strawberry stems and leaves and most importantly, grass.

References

Jones, J. K., & Genoways, H. H. (1967). Notes on the Oaxacan Vole, Microtus oaxacensis Goodwin, 1966. Journal of Mammalogy, 48(2), 320–321. https://doi.org/10.2307/1378042*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. Sánchez H., C., Alvarez R., C. J., & Romero A., M. de L. (1996). Biological and ecological aspects of Microtus oaxacensis and Microtus mexicanus. The Southwestern Naturalist, 41(1), 95–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30054456 Microtus Mammals described in 1966 Endemic mammals of Mexico Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Microtus-stub