Balkan snow vole
| Balkan Snow Vole Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Conservation status | |
| 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 (V. et E. Martino, 1922) | |
| Subspecies | |
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D. b. bogdanovi | |
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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. The Balkan Snow Vole is a living fossil, the only living genus 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.
References
- ↑ Kryštufek, B. (2008). Dinaromys bogdanovi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 24 May 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
- "Dinaromys". 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.