Summary ²

The Mexican Vole (Microtus mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States.

Range description ³

This species has a patchy distribution in mountains from the extreme south of Utah and Colorado, through central Arizona and New Mexico, USA, and throughout the interior of north and central Mxico in the Sierra Madre mountains, as far south as central Oaxaca (Musser and Carleton 2005; Ceballos and Oliva 2005). It ranges in elevation from 1,200 to 4,115 m asl (Ceballos and Oliva 2005; Reid 2006).

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