Microtini

{{Short description|Tribe of rodents}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| name = Microtini

| image = Woodland Vole Microtus Pinetorum.jpg

| image_caption = Microtus pinetorum

| taxon = Microtini

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

Alexandromys

Chionomys

Hyperacrius

Lasiopodomys

Lemmiscus

Microtus

Mictomicrotus

Neodon

Proedromys

Stenocranius

Volemys

}}

Microtini is a tribe of voles in the subfamily Arvicolinae.{{cite web |title=Microtine Voles (Tribe Microtini) |url=https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/846301-Microtini |website=iNaturalist Canada |access-date=2023-05-03 |language=en}}

Most members of this tribe were once placed in Arvicolini, but a 2021 study found that Arvicola is distinct from the other extant genera in Arvicolini, instead being sister to the tribe Lagurini.{{Cite journal|last1=Abramson|first1=Natalia I.|last2=Bodrov|first2=Semyon Yu|last3=Bondareva|first3=Olga V.|last4=Genelt-Yanovskiy|first4=Evgeny A.|last5=Petrova|first5=Tatyana V.|date=2021-11-19|title=A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=16|issue=11|pages=e0248198|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0248198|issn=1932-6203|pmc=8604340|pmid=34797834|bibcode=2021PLoSO..1648198A |doi-access=free }} The current species listing of the American Society of Mammalogists lists only Arvicola in Arvicolini, with all other extant members being removed to Microtini.{{cite journal|author=Mammal Diversity Database |year=2023|title=Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.11) [Data set] |journal=Zenodo |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7830771}}

List of species

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{{Arvicolinae}}

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Category:Voles and lemmings

Category:Mammal tribes

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