Microtus guentheri - #4793
Levant Vole
Geographic Distribution
Lowlands and foothills of SE Europe in S Serbia and Macedonia, SE Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkish Thrace (also on isls of St. Thomas and Lesbos); extends across Anatolia, except E Black Sea Mtns, into coastal region of Syria, Lebanon and C Israel near Jaffa; NE Iraq and NW Iran (south to Alïgûrdarz in Lurestan Prov and eastward to Tehran Prov); also on Cyrenaican Plateau and adjacent coastal plain of N Libya.
Order/Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Microtus
Specific Epithet
guentheri
Image Location
Germany, Berlin, private zoo
Image Date
6 December 2018
Photographer
KD Rudloff