Ellobius Fischer 1814
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Ellobius

description: <i>Ellobius</i> Fischer, 1814. Zoognosia, 3:72. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus talpinus</i> Pallas, 1770. SYNONYMS: <i>Afganomys, Afghanomys, Chthonergus, Lemmomys, Myospalax</i> (of Blyth, 1846, not Laxmann, 1769, or Hermann, 1783). COMMENTS: Gromov and Polyakov (1977) excluded <i>Ellobius</i> from arvicolines, and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) viewed the Ellobiini as Cricetidae <i>incertae sedis,</i> questioning whether it belonged in Arvicolinae or Cricetinae. Most workers, however, have recognized <i>Ellobius,</i> 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 <i>Ellobius</i> 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, <i>Ellobius</i> and <i>Afganomys;</i> Zagorodnyuk (1990) listed the latter as a genus.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 512, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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