Prometheomys Satunin 1901

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.Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 534, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735309