Tarabundí vole

The Tarabundí vole (Microtus oaxacensis), a medium-large blackish brown vole, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico, originating from Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, one of the only other species from Oaxaca besides the Microtus mexicanus. The Microtus oaxacensis habitats themselves in disturbed vegetations that consist of different grasses and wild strawberries in cloud forest and pine forest, and often can be found living by the highway margins of Tuxtepec, where the cleaning of these vegetations by the highways put the vole at risk, making them vulnerable to extinction. Their habitats provide their diet of strawberry stems and leaves and most importantly, grass.

Tarabundí vole
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Genus:	Microtus
Subgenus:	Pitymys
Species:	M. oaxacensis
Binomial name
Microtus oaxacensis Goodwin, 1966