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<emphasis id="7E882A8F7C950108ADE5C40F5D84C009" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius</emphasis>
G. Fischer 1814
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<treatmentCitation id="6534BE2B352ACCC6B19AE0492EF9ABF1" author="G. Fischer" authority="G. Fischer 1814" authorityName="G. Fischer" authorityYear="1814" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="72" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus" title="Ellobius" volumeTitle="Zoognosia, Vol. 3" year="1814">
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<emphasis id="5D0E81CC45A3316BD579195D02FA18BA" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius</emphasis>
G. Fischer 1814
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,
<bibCitation id="311ABC69B3E7C76B70BBF08D28B29199" author="G. Fischer" pageNumber="974" pagination="72" title="Ellobius" volumeTitle="Zoognosia, Vol. 3" year="1814">Zoognosia, Vol. 3: 72</bibCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="759BAAB4659865D786DC3B25ED8C0BBA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="974">Type Species:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="D0EDCC11F6389A5C8FA2C5E560CA46AC" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Mus talpinus</emphasis>
Pallas 1770
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<emphasis id="4780639D07F02ACF121441FAC3D0E75D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="974">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="27B045CE7157C3B2870D7420934CCFC9" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Afghanomys</emphasis>
Baryshnikov and Baranova 1983
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;
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<emphasis id="E31D59A608705BF48906FCF707691986" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Chthonergus</emphasis>
Nordmann 1839
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;
<taxonomicName id="832BDBC1F1AA313CC53D8CD7737B5DE9" authority="Lesson 1842" authorityName="Lesson" authorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Lemmomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="15C89882345BED58ACD97CB3821FC509" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Lemmomys</emphasis>
Lesson 1842
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="D1755094EC9179810A4F77D71BBB9FD9" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="974">Species and subspecies:</emphasis>
5 species in 2 subgenera:
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Subgenus
<taxonomicName id="E6A3B733C7014BE7B7B2633B489C1EA2" authority="G. Fischer 1814" authorityName="G. Fischer" authorityYear="1814" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Ellobius">
<emphasis id="3E4053B65C9685DCCBC56D7719258339" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Ellobius)</emphasis>
G. Fischer 1814
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Subgenus
<taxonomicName id="E77066510D27EB6B0BF01C6CE8E5A9DA" authority="Topachevski 1965" authorityName="Topachevski" authorityYear="1965" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Afganomys">
<emphasis id="F191A946608CD66BF720C6CAC8E03A3F" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Afganomys)</emphasis>
Topachevski 1965
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Species
<taxonomicName id="74139964490AE83384F61AD77F4E502F" authority="Vorontsov et al. 1969" authorityName="Vorontsov et al." authorityYear="1969" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="alaicus" subGenus="Ellobius">
<emphasis id="F83A0D39DDBE0C31687AAF70A6106273" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Ellobius) alaicus</emphasis>
Vorontsov et al. 1969
</taxonomicName>
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Species
<taxonomicName id="83F1BA92446E06A426F21F8109F0D065" authority="Blyth 1843" authorityName="Blyth" authorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fuscocapillus" subGenus="Afganomys">
<emphasis id="E8BB77135D4555F52EAF7592CBB2014B" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Afganomys) fuscocapillus</emphasis>
Blyth 1843
</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="FF25CEDBECDE5F3C5CBF889B495C8C11" pageNumber="974">
Species
<taxonomicName id="F8822B94AEFE363B2EE9D69A2E1EC1A3" authority="Thomas 1897" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1897" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutescens" subGenus="Afganomys">
<emphasis id="8CC5FB5350BF385C7D2BEB274430FCBA" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Afganomys) lutescens</emphasis>
Thomas 1897
</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="BAA52A62B472D2C8F5D632674C41BEF4" pageNumber="974">
Species
<taxonomicName id="AF1FACA2642AD1DF80B1D8DB8A4A7DB5" authority="(Pallas 1770)" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1770" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="talpinus" subGenus="Ellobius">
<emphasis id="5AD9B2FBA09256973662DED0961FF5CE" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Ellobius) talpinus</emphasis>
(Pallas 1770)
</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="E59A9E33D11DB4403956C22A14A32ABD" pageNumber="974">
Species
<taxonomicName id="67D98F76EF6CD75EE29FC925D789A6F6" authority="Blasius 1884" authorityName="Blasius" authorityYear="1884" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Ellobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="974" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tancrei" subGenus="Ellobius">
<emphasis id="516D67E7D56E8A26AE97C9F0853F7DE0" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius (Ellobius) tancrei</emphasis>
Blasius 1884
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<emphasis id="75065011F90E356FBADBD0F32D14CFDA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="974">Discussion:</emphasis>
Ellobiusini (emended by
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Pavlinov et al., 1995
<emphasis id="77993D75AC9E6230ADCD94994A66D01A" italics="true" pageNumber="974">a</emphasis>
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, because Ellobiini
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is a junior homonym of Ellobiinae Adams, 1858, whose type genus
<taxonomicName id="CEDFA678A96D470B3817E03396C6E66F" authorityName="Roding" authorityYear="1798" class="Gastropoda" family="Ellobiidae" genus="Ellobium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ellobiida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="268545EB5B322D505C93A1EFAD29723D" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a mollusk).
<bibRefCitation id="070B7EC3CEC0B11D4E0841C9DD12C1CF" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; I. Ya. Polyakov" refId="ref130339" refString="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)." year="1977">Gromov and Polyakov (1977)</bibRefCitation>
excluded
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<emphasis id="3B1925142C5D92206C6429F260AF207D" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius</emphasis>
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from arvicolines;
<bibRefCitation id="CCA34A305C7101A4072BFC47F370B81B" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya. &amp; O. L. Rossolimo" refId="ref277815" refString="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)." year="1987">Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987)</bibRefCitation>
viewed the genus as
<taxonomicName id="2315D3B46D34F0AF33EDB1EE8AD10A71" authorityName="Fischer" authorityYear="1817" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Cricetidae</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="DC1283A3F694DD0974B9BD55647FB1F6" italics="true" pageNumber="974">incertae sedis</emphasis>
, questioning whether it belonged in
<taxonomicName id="83D5BFA1678643C945853DC8162F301D" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Arvicolinae">Arvicolinae</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName id="46B0FFD2546F29FCAB76CCC87A2D45D0" authorityName="Fischer" authorityYear="1817" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Cricetinae">Cricetinae</taxonomicName>
; and
<bibRefCitation id="F6BFD00B0685F8B99C3CE64CF7CBDCBE" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; M. A. Erbajeva" refId="ref130294" refString="Gromov, I. M., and M. A. Erbajeva. 1995. [The mammals of Russia and adjacent territories. Lagomorphs and Rodents.] Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institut, St. Petersburg, 520 pp." year="1995">Gromov and Erbajeva (1995)</bibRefCitation>
included it in
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. Most workers, however, have recognized
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<emphasis id="360C4B75C4050D6278F45CACCE81B523" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius</emphasis>
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, albeit highly specialized morphologically, as the only extant member of a tribe within
<taxonomicName id="68E5CA4AB4D7143C981EB9600CDEA106" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Arvicolinae">Arvicolinae</taxonomicName>
(
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Corbet, 1978
<emphasis id="8BAD6068EB81C9A4FCA9ED23997339BE" italics="true" pageNumber="974">c</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="2557C250C6A24EF1EADAB04DD496AFF2" author="Hooper, E. T. &amp; B. S. Hart" refId="ref158686" refString="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." year="1962">Hooper and Hart, 1962</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="E838235F8C9C5D85B65A3F8BAD904179" author="McKenna, M. C. &amp; S. K. Bell" refId="ref233772" refString="McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp." year="1997">McKenna and Bell, 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
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Pavlinov et al., 1995
<emphasis id="B067CD4B89715C65C0746DBC4BEC3E2C" italics="true" pageNumber="974">a</emphasis>
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;
<bibRefCitation id="70772E3FAA2EF337CD4F49E16AD869D0" author="Topachevskii, V. A. &amp; L. I. Rekovets" refId="ref358212" refString="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)." year="1982">Topachevskii and Rekovets, 1982</bibRefCitation>
), an affiliation supported by DNA sequence (
<bibRefCitation id="E135422BD1126E86563B64EF0E150B6A" author="Just, W. &amp; W. Rau &amp; W. Vogel &amp; M. Akhverdian &amp; K. Fredga" refId="ref178558" refString="Just, W., W. Rau, W. Vogel, M. Akhverdian, and K. Fredga. 1995. Absence of Sry in species of the vole Ellobius. Nature Genetics, 11: 117 - 118." year="1995">Just et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
) and allozymic analyses (
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). Ultrastructure and evolution of sex chromosomes discussed by
<bibRefCitation id="EA495D96FB833A1D3854EB6B42F5BA50" author="Kolomiets, O. L. &amp; N. N. Vorontsov &amp; E. A. Lyapunova &amp; T. F. Mazurova" refId="ref192841" refString="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." year="1991">Kolomiets et al. (1991)</bibRefCitation>
. Two subgenera are recognized,
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<emphasis id="A8D637A7C75AC5E6419C00732A628DC8" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="BC1758360A80EB1F6AE239BDB4FE6EA3" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Afganomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
;
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listed the latter as a genus.
<bibRefCitation id="7BACC33333FDDEFEBCC6A9E50937CD34" author="Topachevskii, V. A. &amp; L. I. Rekovets" refId="ref358212" refString="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)." year="1982">Topachevskii and Rekovets (1982)</bibRefCitation>
documented morphological trends and interspecific interpretations from the late Pliocene to Recent. The present range of
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<emphasis id="99A74946D48D50908142303BC847F69A" italics="true" pageNumber="974">Ellobius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only part of a wider distribution that once embraced
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and North Africa in the middle to late Pleistocene (
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Jaeger, 1988
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).
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