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Arvicola terrestris (European water vole)
Taxonomy
Mus terrestris was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Arvicola terrestris by Thomas (1911), Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Galewski et al. (2006).
It was recombined as Arvicola terrestris by Thomas (1911), Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Galewski et al. (2006).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Mus terrestris Linnaeus p. 61 |
| 1911 | Arvicola terrestris Thomas p. 147 |
| 1927 | Arvicola terrestris Boule and De Villeneuve p. 81 |
| 2006 | Arvicola terrestris Galewski et al. |
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Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 [European water vole]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999, Gingerich 2003, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (26 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Netherlands | Arvicola terrestris (189574) | |
| Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Wales) | Arvicola terrestris (34940) | |
| Pleistocene | France (Haute-Normandie Region) | Arvicola terrestris (36426) | |
| Quaternary | Germany (Bayern) | Arvicola terrestris (52521) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Limousin Region) | Arvicola terrestris (36429) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Limousin region) | Arvicola terrestris (36428 36437 36438 36439) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Trieste) | Arvicola terrestris (43705) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Haute-Normandie Region) | Arvicola terrestris (36391) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) | Arvicola terrestris (49999) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Kazakhstan | Arvicola terrestris (40496) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Arvicola terrestris (191730) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France | Arvicola terrestris (43630) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Ukraine | Arvicola terrestris (68298) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France (Poitou-Charentes) | Arvicola terrestris (43619 43628 43629 43631) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Serres) | Arvicola terrestris (204956) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | Arvicola terrestris (197461) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece | Arvicola terrestris (203847 204954) | |
| Holocene | Netherlands | Arvicola terrestris (55533) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Arvicola terrestris (191169) |