Long-Clawed Mole Vole

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Long-clawed Mole Vole Fossil range: Late Pleistocene - Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Prometheomyini Genus: Prometheomys Satunin, 1901 Species: P. schaposchnikowi
Binomial name
Prometheomys schaposchnikowi Satunin1901

The Long-clawed Mole Vole (Prometheomys schaposchnikowi) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Prometheomys. It is found in Georgia and Turkey.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Prometheomys schaposchnikowi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
• 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.