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. et E. 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

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..

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.[2]

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