Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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755
book chapter
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Dinaromys
Kretzoi, 1955
.
Acta Geol. Acad. Sci. Hung., 3:347
-353.
TYPE SPECIES:
Microtus (Chionomys) marakovici
Bolkay, 1924
(=
Microtus bogdanovi
Martino, 1922
).
COMMENTS: Often referenced as
Dolomys
until
Corbet (1978c)
explained the correct usage of
Dinaromys
for
bogdanovi
.
The genus has been allocated to the
Ondatrini
(see
Corbet, 1978c
) or
Clethrionomyini
(
Gromov and Polyakov, 1977
;
Hooper and Hart, 1962
), but
Kretzoi's (1969)
referral to the Pliomyini perhaps reflects a stronger hypothesis of its phylogenetic affinities (also see
Zagorodnyuk, 1990
). Based on molar enamel microstructure,
Koenigswald (1980)
discovered no close affinity with any living arvicoline and suggested a relationship with an extinct species of
Propliomys
,
a late Pliocene genus also placed in Pliomyini by
Kretzoi (1969)
.