Balkan snow vole

Balkan snow vole; Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Pliomyini; Kretzoi, 1955
Genus:	Dinaromys; Kretzoi, 1955
Species:	D. bogdanovi
Binomial name
	Dinaromys bogdanovi; (V. et E. Martino, 1922)
Subspecies
	D. b. bogdanovi; D. b. coeruleus; D. b. grebenscikovi; D. b. korabensis; D. b. longipedis; D. b. marakovici; D. b. preniensis; D. b. trebevicensis

The Balkan snow vole, Dinaromys bogdanovi, also known as Martino's snow vole is the only member of the genus Dinaromys. Eight subspecies of this vole have been recognized from southern parts of Europe. The genus name means "Dinaric mouse", referring to the Dinaric Alps. The Balkan snow vole is a living fossil, the only living genus in the tribe Pliomyini and might arguably better be placed in Pliomys, a genus established for its fossil relatives even before the Balkan snow vole was scientifically described.

References

Kryštufek, B. (2008). "Dinaromys bogdanovi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.

"Dinaromys". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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[iucn-1] Kryštufek, B. (2008). "Dinaromys bogdanovi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.