Kingdom Animalia Family Cricetidae Tribe Pliomyini Rank Genus | Class Mammalia Subfamily Arvicolinae Phylum Chordata Order Rodent | |
Similar Rodent, Terricola, Balkan snow vole, Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis, Lagurus | ||
Pliomys is an extinct genus of forest voles, subfamily Arvicolinae, tribe Pliomyini (Musser and Carleton, 2005). One member is the extinct species Pliomys episcopalis. The genus was described by Méhely in 1914, and is paraphyletic with respect to Dinaromys.
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