Microtus (Microtus) dogramacii Kefelioğlu and Kryštufek 1999

Microtus (Microtus) dogramacii Kefelioğlu and Kryštufek 1999, J. Nat. Hist., 33: 301.

Type Locality: NC Turkey, Amasya, Suluova, Boyali köyü, 900 m; 35°36'E, 41°40'N) .

Vernacular Names: Dogramaci's Vole.

Distribution: Recorded only from two places on the Anatolian Plateau, the type locality and near Konya in the south (Kefelioğlu and Kryštufek, 1999).

Discussion: Subgenus Microtus, socialis species group. A distinctive species similar in body size and morphology to Turkish M. socialis but different in a combination of external and cranial proportions and in karyotype (2n = 48, FN = 46, 48, 50 in M. dogramacii; 2n and FN = 62 in M. socialis). Kefelioğlu and Kryštufek (1999) and Kryštufek and Kefelioğlu (2002) provided chromosomal, phenetic, and morphometric analyses that critically contrast M. dogramacii with M. anatolicus and Turkish M. socialis and M. guentherii . Çolak et al. (1997) identified M. irani from SE Turkey with 2n = 46; Kryštufek and Vohralík (2001) suggested that their sample may be close to M. dogramacii, which is chromosomally polymorphic.