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Subfamily of mammals
The
subfamily Talpinae ,
[1] sometimes called "Old World moles" or "Old World moles and relatives", is one of three subfamilies of the
mole family
Talpidae , the others being the
Scalopinae , or New World moles, and the
Uropsilinae , or shrew-like moles.
These mammals in the order
Eulipotyphla mainly live under ground. The species in this group are all found in
Eurasia , except
Neurotrichus gibbsii . Most species have front paws specialized for tunneling which are clawed and face outwards from the body. They mainly eat insects and other small invertebrates.
Taxonomy
Although most systems recognize this subfamily as monophyletic, some studies indicate that it as currently defined is
paraphyletic with respect to the
Scalopinae , with
Desmanini being the most basal member, then a clade comprising
Neurotrichini ,
Scaptonychini , and
Urotrichini , then the
Condylurini (otherwise classified in the
Scalopinae ), and then
Talpini and
Scalopini being sister groups to one another.
[2]
The list of species is:
[3]
Subfamily Talpinae
Tribe
Desmanini
Tribe
Neurotrichini
Tribe
Scaptonychini
Tribe
Talpini
Genus
Euroscaptor
Greater Chinese mole , E. grandis
Kloss's mole , E. klossi
Kuznetsov's mole , E. kuznetsovi
Long-nosed mole , E. longirostris
Malaysian mole , E. malayanus
[4]
Himalayan mole , E. micrurus
Ngoc Linh mole , E. ngoclinhensis
Orlov's mole , E. orlovi
Small-toothed mole , E. parvidens
Vietnamese mole , E. subanura
[5]
Genus
Mogera
Genus
Oreoscaptor
Genus
Parascaptor
Genus
Scaptochirus - China
Genus
Talpa
Altai mole , T. altaica
Aquitanian mole , T. aquitania
[6]
Blind mole , T. caeca
Caucasian mole , T. caucasica
Père David's mole , T. davidiana
European mole , T. europaea
Levant mole , T. levantis
Martino's mole , T. martinorum
Spanish mole , T. occidentalis
Ognev's mole , T. ognevi
Roman mole , T. romana
Balkan mole , T. stankovici
Talysch mole , T. talyschensis
Tribe
Urotrichini
References
^ Hutterer, R. (2005).
Wilson, D.E. ; Reeder, D.M. (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 302–310.
ISBN
978-0-8018-8221-0 .
OCLC
62265494 .
^ Schwermann, Achim H.; He, Kai; Peters, Benjamin J.; Plogschties, Thorsten; Sansalone, Gabriele (2019).
"Systematics and macroevolution of extant and fossil scalopine moles (Mammalia, Talpidae)" . Palaeontology . 62 (4): 661–676.
doi :
10.1111/pala.12422 .
ISSN
1475-4983 .
S2CID
134096608 .
^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-08-10),
Mammal Diversity Database , retrieved 2021-10-13
^
Redescription of the Malaysian Mole as to be a true species Euroscaptor malayana [
permanent dead link ]
^ Kawada, S-I.; et al. (2012).
"A new species of mole of the genus Euroscaptor (Soricomorpha, Talpidae) from northern Vietnam" . Journal of Mammalogy . 93 (3): 839–850.
doi :
10.1644/11-MAMM-A-296.1 .
^ Nicolas, Violaine; Martínez-Vargas, Jessica; Hugot, Jean-Pierre (2017).
"Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain" (PDF) . Mammalia . 81 (6): 641–642.
doi :
10.1515/MAMMALIA-2017-0057 .
S2CID
90926022 .
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