Ellobius

Ellobius Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
Northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Ellobiusini Gill, 1872
Genus:	Ellobius Fischer, 1814
Type species
Mus talpinus
Species
Ellobius alaicus Ellobius talpinus Ellobius tancrei

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)
• Northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus)
• Zaisan mole vole (Ellobius tancrei)

Two members of this genus were moved to the genus Bramus:

• Southern mole vole (Bramus fuscocapillus)
• Transcaucasian mole vole (Bramus lutescens)

See also

• Tokudaia

References

1. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Genus Ellobius". 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. 974–976. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. 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.