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Phenacomyini

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Phenacomyini
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - present, 1.8–0 Ma
Red tree vole (Arborimus longicaudus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Phenacomyini
Zagorodniuk, 1990
Genera

Arborimus
Phenacomys

Phenacomyini is a tribe of voles in the subfamily Arvicolinae. It contains five species in two genera, all of which are found in North America.[1][2][3]

Species in this tribe are:

The fossil taxa Hibbardomys and Paraphenacomys likely also belong to this tribe.[4]

The phylogenetic affinities of this tribe have been disputed; some authors have classified them as belonging in the same clade as Arvicolini and Myodini, while others ally them with the otherwise Arctic tribe Dicrostonychini and place them outside the clade containing other voles.[4] A 2021 phylogenetic study found Phenacomyini to form a sister group to Dicrostonychini and synonymized it with them.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212, retrieved 2021-12-12
  2. ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  3. ^ "Fossilworks: Phenacomyini". www.fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  4. ^ a b Naish, Darren. "North America: land of obscure, freaky voles". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  5. ^ Abramson, Natalia I.; Bodrov, Semyon Yu; Bondareva, Olga V.; Genelt-Yanovskiy, Evgeny A.; Petrova, Tatyana V. (2021-11-19). "A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications". PLOS ONE. 16 (11): e0248198. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1648198A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248198. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 8604340. PMID 34797834.