Microtus dogramacii

Kefelioğlu & Kryštufek, 1999

Dogramaci's Vole

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Arvicolinae
Tribe : Microtini
Genus : Microtus
Subgenus : Microtus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Kefelioğlu, H. and Kryštufek, B. 1999-02-04. The taxonomy of _Microtus socialis_ group (Rodentia: Microtinae) in Turkey, with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 33(2):289-303.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1080/002229399300425

Original name as described

Microtus dogramacii

Type material

OMUS 506

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Boyali köyü, Sulova, Amasya, Turkey.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Turkey · Jordan · Iran

Taxonomy notes

tentatively includes qazvinensis and the recently described elbeyli (which has also been considered a synonym of M. irani), which may ultimately represent distinct species; also includes individuals in Jordan that were previously identified as M. guentheri, suggesting the species may have a much wider distribution

Taxonomy notes citation

Mahmoudi, A., Darvish, J., & Aliabadian, M. (2015). Taxonomic identity of Microtus qazvinensis Golenishchev et al. 2003 (Rodentia, Arvicolinae) from the northwest of Iran. Mammal Research, 60(1), 71-79. · Thanou, E., Paragamian, K., & Lymberakis, P. (2020). Social but lonely: Species delimitation of social voles and the evolutionary history of the only Microtus species living in Africa. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58(1), 475-498. · Yi̇ği̇t N., Çolak E., Sözen M. 2016. A new species of voles, Microtus elbeyli sp. nov., from Turkey with taxonomicoverview of social voles distributed in southeastern Anatolia. Turk J Zool. 40:73–79. · Kryštufek, B., & Shenbrot, G. (2022). Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region. University of Maribor Press, Maribor.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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