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Balkan snow vole

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Balkan snow vole
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Pliomyini
Genus: Dinaromys
Kretzoi, 1955
Species:
D. bogdanovi
Binomial name
Dinaromys bogdanovi
(V. E. Martino & E. V. Martino, 1922)
Subspecies

D. b. bogdanovi
D. b. coeruleus
D. b. grebenscikovi
D. b. korabensis
D. b. longipedis
D. b. marakovici
D. b. preniensis
D. b. trebevicensis

Balkan snow vole range

The Balkan snow vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi), also known as Martino's snow vole, is the only member of the genus Dinaromys. Eight subspecies of this vole have been recognized from southern parts of Europe, although in 2022 this number was reduced to two subspecies.[2] The genus name means "Dinaric mouse", referring to the Dinaric Alps. The Balkan snow vole is a living fossil, the only living species in the tribe Pliomyini, and might arguably better be placed in Pliomys, a genus established for its fossil relatives even before the Balkan snow vole was scientifically described. It was described by husband and wife mammalogists Vladimir Emmanuilovich Martino and Evgeniya Veniaminovna Martino.[3]

A 2021 study found Dinaromys (and by extension, the rest of Pliomyini) to be the sister group to the tribe Ellobiusini, from which it diverged during the late Miocene; however, this still remains uncertain.[4]

The subspecies D. d. longipedis was recognized as a distinct species by the American Society of Mammalogists as Dinaromys longipedis; it is found in the northwestern part of this species's range.[5]

References

  1. ^ Kryštufek, B. (2018). "Dinaromys bogdanovi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T6607A97220104. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T6607A97220104.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Kryštufek, Boris; Shenbrot, Georgy I. (July 2022). Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region. Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press. ISBN 978-961-286-611-2.
  3. ^ Kryštufek, Boris; Nedyalkov, Nedko; Astrin, Jonas J.; Hutterer, Rainer (May 2018). "News from the Balkam refugium: Thrace has an endemic mole species (Mammalia: Talpidae)". Bonn zoological Bulletin. 67 (1): 41–57. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  4. ^ Abramson, Natalia I.; Bodrov, Semyon Yu; Bondareva, Olga V.; Genelt-Yanovskiy, Evgeny A.; Petrova, Tatyana V. (2021-11-19). "A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications". PLOS ONE. 16 (11): e0248198. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1648198A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248198. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 8604340. PMID 34797834.
  5. ^ https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006658