Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Kryštufek, Boris, Koren, Toni, Engelberger, Simon, Horváth, Győző F., Purger, Jenő J., Arslan, Atilla, Chişamera, Gabriel & Murariu, Dumitru, 2015, Fossorial morphotype does not make a species in water voles, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 79 (3), pp. 293-303 : 300

Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality: Upsala, Sweden .

Notes: Moderately large aquatic voles with a skull showing “a decided tendency to assume a fossorial structure.” “[H] abits both aquatic and mole-like” ( Miller 1912). Priority of terrestris over amphibius was accepted by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Ognev (1964), and numerous subsequent authors.