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BankVole🐾

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SpeciesRodentiaCricetidae
Mammals

🐾Bank vole

Myodes glareolus (Schreber, 1780)

Le Campagnol roussâtre (Clethrionomys glareolus, syn. Myodes glareolus) est une espèce de rongeurs de la famille des Cricétidés. Ce campagnol est aussi nommé en français Campagnol des bois, Campagnol glaréole, Campagnol des grèves, Campagnol du Nord ou Campagnol des sables. Il est distinct du Campagnol sylvestre nord-américain ou du Campagnol commun, appelé aussi comme lui parfois Campagnol fauve. Clethrionomys glareolus est le vecteur d'un hantavirus qui provoque une fièvre hémorragique.

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≈ 1/2,980th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
0.11 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
4.91 years
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Everything we know about the Bank vole

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
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  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.11 m
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Brain mass
0.52 g
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Maximum lifespan
4.91 years
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  • 4.9 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
1.58 years
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Age at maturity
41 days
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Gestation
20 days
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  • 20 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
0 km²
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Population density
1,500 per km²
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Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bank vole yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyCricetidae
  6. ›genusMyodes
  7. ›speciesMyodes glareolus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familyCricetidae
  4. subfamilyArvicolinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderMyomorpha
  13. familyCricetidae
  14. subfamilyArvicolinae
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants50%
seeds and grain30%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
klatremus (nb), Rötelmaus (de), Myodes glareolus (es), metsämyyrä (fi), Myodes glareolus (fr), Nornica ruda (pl) … and 23 more languages
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