Ellobius
| Ellobius Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent | |
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| Ellobius talpinus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Ellobiusini |
| Genus: | Ellobius Fischer, 1814 |
| Species | |
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Ellobius alaicus | |
Ellobius is a genus of rodents in the family Cricetidae.[1] It contains two (E. lutescens and E. tancrei) of the handful of examples of mammal species that have lost the Y chromosome.[2]
The genus has the following species:
- Alai mole vole (Ellobius alaicus)
- Southern mole vole (Ellobius fuscocapillus)
- Transcaucasian mole vole (Ellobius lutescens)
- Northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus)
- Zaisan mole vole (Ellobius tancrei)
See also
References
- ↑ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Genus Ellobius". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 974–976. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Bagheri-Fam, S et al. (January 2012). "Sox9 gene regulation and the loss of the XY/XX sex-determining mechanism in the mole vole Ellobius lutescens.". Chromosome Research. 20 (1): 191–9. doi:10.1007/s10577-011-9269-5. PMID 22215485.
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