Dinaromys Kretzoi, 1955

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 511

Dinaromys Kretzoi, 1955 . Acta Geol. Acad. Sci. Hung., 3:347 -353.

TYPE SPECIES: Microtus (Chionomys) marakovici Bolkay, 1924 (= Microtus bogdanovi Martino, 1922 ).

COMMENTS: Often referenced as Dolomys until Corbet (1978c) explained the correct usage of Dinaromys for bogdanovi . The genus has been allocated to the Ondatrini (see Corbet, 1978c) or Clethrionomyini ( Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Hooper and Hart, 1962), but Kretzoi's (1969) referral to the Pliomyini perhaps reflects a stronger hypothesis of its phylogenetic affinities (also see Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Based on molar enamel microstructure, Koenigswald (1980) discovered no close affinity with any living arvicoline and suggested a relationship with an extinct species of Propliomys , a late Pliocene genus also placed in Pliomyini by Kretzoi (1969).