Ellobius Fischer, 1814

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 512

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Ellobius Fischer, 1814 . Zoognosia, 3:72.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus talpinus Pallas, 1770 .

SYNONYMS: Afganomys , Afghanomys , Chthonergus , Lemmomys , Myospalax (of Blyth, 1846, not Laxmann, 1769, or Hermann, 1783).

COMMENTS: Gromov and Polyakov (1977) excluded Ellobius from arvicolines, and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) viewed the Ellobiini as Cricetidae incertae sedis, questioning whether it belonged in Arvicolinae or Cricetinae . Most workers, however, have recognized Ellobius , albeit highly specialized and unusual, as the only extant member of the tribe Ellobiini of Arvicolinae ( Corbet, 1978c; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Kretzoi, 1969; Topachevskii and Rekovets, 1982). Topachevskii and Rekovets (1982) interpreted relationships and morhological trends in diversification within the genus from the late Pliocene to Recent. The present range of Ellobius is only part of a wider distribution that once embraced Israel and North Africa in the middle to late Pleistocene (Jaeger, 1988). Ultrastructure, meiotic behavior, and evolution of sex chromosomes in the genus are discussed by Kolomiets et al. (1991). Two subgenera are recognized, Ellobius and Afganomys ; Zagorodnyuk (1990) listed the latter as a genus.

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).

Hermann, J. 1783. Tabula Affinitatum Anim. p. 115.

Hooper, E. T., and B. S. Hart. 1962. A synopsis of Recent North American microtine rodents. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 120: 1 - 68.

Kolomiets, O. L., N. N. Vorontsov, E. A. Lyapunova, and T. F. Mazurova. 1991. Ultrastructure, meiotic behavior, and evolution of sex chromosomes of the genus Ellobius. Genetica, 84: 179 - 189.

Kretzoi, M. 1969. Skizze einer Arvicoliden-Phylogenie. Vertebrata Hungarica (Budapest), 11: 155 - 193.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Topachevskii, V. A., and L. I. Rekovets. 1982. Novye materialy k sistematike i evolyutsii slepushonok nominativnovo podrod roda Ellobius (Rodentia, Cricetidae) [New material for systematic and evolution of the mole vole, nominative subgenus and genus Ellobius (Rodentia, Cricetidae)]. Vestnik Zoologii, 5: 47 - 54 (in Russian).

Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian).