Prometheomys Satunin, 1901

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 : 534

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Prometheomys Satunin, 1901 . Zool. Anz., 24:572.

TYPE SPECIES: Prometheomys schaposchnikowi Satunin, 1901 .

COMMENTS: The only extant member of an archaic line of the arvicoline radiation, which most specialists isolate as the tribe Prometheomyini within Arvicolinae ( Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Kretzoi, 1969; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Repenning et al. (1990), however, aligned Prometheomys with another presumed relic, Ellobius , in the subfamily Prometheomyinae .