Lemmiscus curtatus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Ecology: Sagebrush voles occur in semi-arid prairies, rolling hills , brushy canyons , with loose , well-drained soil (may be rocky). Vegetation usually dominated by sagebrush and bunchgrasses, especially crested wheatgrass. They nest in underground burrows and appear to breed year round , but possibly not in winter in the north. There is a decline in breeding activity in summer. Females may have up to three litters in a season . Gestation averages 25 days. Average litter size is four to six. In Idaho, sagebrush voles apparently occur singly or in pairs during the warm season; they may nest communally in winter (Mullican and Keller 1987).

They eat almost any green plant material , including Bromus (but not the ripe seeds) and other grasses, leaves, flowers and stalks of Eriogonum, and some Artemisia leaves. Castilleja and Lupinus are the most common foods in June and August, respectively, in Idaho. They are active essentially throughout the day, year round, but the main activity period is two to three hours before sunset to two to three hours after full darkness, and a similar period around sunrise.[1].

List of Habitats :

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Arvicola curtata Cope • Arvicola decurtata Coues • Lagurus curtatus • Lagurus curtatus (Cope

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jun-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lemmiscus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. curtatus (Sagebrush Vole)

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Further Reading

• Lund easement baseline biological inventory / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2001 url .
• Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kan.: The Museum. url p. 407.
• Mule deer in the Missouri River Breaks, Montana: a study of population dynamics in a fluctuating environment / Kenneth L. Hamlin, Richard J. Mackie. [Helena?]: Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, [1989] url p. 141.
• Potential wildlife-highway interactions at select mile-markers along Montana Department of Transportation routes an ArcView GIS analysis / Bozeman, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Management Program, Montana State University, 2001 url .
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 4, p. 750.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 47 1987 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url , p. 135, mullican & keller, page 276, fig. 1, page 277, bell & mead, page 82, p. 83, p. 85.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 6 1952 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 538, p. 770.
• Voles (Microtinae) / I.M. Gromov and I.Ya. Polyakov; scientific editors, Douglas Siegel-Causey, Robert S. Hoffmann. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1992. url p. 261.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 17 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Linzey, A.V. & Hammerson, G. 2008. Lemmiscus curtatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Rodent Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 20, 2008.
• Rodent Specialist Group 1996. Lemmiscus curtatus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 14, 2008:

• Burke Museum: Mammal Specimens
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Michigan State University Museum: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• Sternberg Museum of Natural History: Mammal Collection
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: MSB Mammals Specimens
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 107934
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-552490
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13836829
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552490
• IUCN ID: 218495
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AMAFF13010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 16694

Footnotes

1. Linzey, A.V. & Hammerson, G. 2008. Lemmiscus curtatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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