Following on from Phil Piper's comments on the terrestrial habits of the water vole, I draw your attention to this paper, (below) which comments upon the changes in tooth, and especially incisor morphology, with reference to terrestrial behaviour, and fossorial lifestyle.
 
Montgomery, W. I. (1975). On the relationship between sub-fossil and recent British Water voles. Mammal Review 5: 23-29.
 
Jim Williams