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ON August 20, 1964, one of us (A. J. M. C.), while trapping for small mammals near Listowel, County Kerry, caught an unusual ‘mouse’. On subsequent examination it proved to be a member of the family Cricetidae, the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus Schreber—a family of mammals hitherto unknown from Ireland1–4.
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CLAASSENS, A., O'GORMAN, F. The Bank Vole, Clethrionomys glareolus Schreber: a Mammal New to Ireland. Nature 205, 923–924 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205923a0
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