Parent taxon: Muridae according to H. de Bruijn 2017
See also de Bruijn et al. 1970, de Bruijn et al. 2006, Steppan et al. 2004 and Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005
Sister taxa: Abditomys, Afrocricetodontinae, Allorattus, Anthracomys, Apodemus, Apomys, Arvicanthis, Bullimus, Castillomys, Castorina, Castromys, Centralomys, Chiropodomys, Colomys, Dasymys, Deomyinae, Echymina, Extrarius, Gerbillinae, Gerbua, Grammomys, Hapalomys, Huaxiamys, Huerzelerimys, Hydromina, Hyomys, Karnimata, Kritimys, Lemniscomys, Limnomys, Mastacomys, Micromys, Mikrotia, Murina, Murinae, Myocricetodontinae, Myotomys, Mysops, Nesokia, Occitanomys, Orientalomys, Papagomys, Paraethomys, Parapelomys, Parapodemus, Parotomys, Pelomys, Praomys, Proceromys, Progonomys, Rhabdomys, Rhagamys, Rhagapodemus, Rhagomys, Saccostomus, Saidomys, Steatomys, Stephanomys, Tachyoryctoidinae, Tarsomys, Thallomys, Thamnomys, Valerimys, Zelotomys
Subtaxa: Debruijnia Pliospalax Spalax Vetusspalax
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (7 collections), Hungary (11), Israel (6), Romania (10), Türkiye (2), Ukraine (3)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of Armenia (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1)
• MN 13 of Greece (1)
• Turolian of China (1), Greece (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Greece (2), Türkiye (3)
• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Serbia (1)
• Eocene of Serbia (1)
Total: 63 collections including 64 occurrences