''Ellobius'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...
s in the family
Cricetidae
The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At over 870 species, it is either the largest or second-largest family ...
.
It contains two (''
E. talpinus'' and ''
E. tancrei'') of the handful of examples of mammal species that have lost the
Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms. Along with the X chromosome, it is part of the XY sex-determination system, in which the Y is the sex-determining chromosome because the presence of the ...
.
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'' another mammal genus that has lost the Y-chromosome
References
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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