Balkan Snow Vole

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Balkan Snow Vole Fossil range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Pliomyini Kretzoi, 1955 Genus: Dinaromys Kretzoi, 1955 Species: D. bogdanovi
Binomial name
Dinaromys bogdanovi (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

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. The genus name means "Dinaric mouse", referring to the Dinaric Alps. Dinaromys is the only living genus in the tribe Pliomyini.

[edit] References

• TSN 632596. Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.