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Talpa  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 633478

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2006   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria   
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderSoricomorpha Gregory, 1910  
                                  FamilyTalpidae G. Fischer, 1814 – desmans, moles, shrew-moles  
                                     SubfamilyTalpinae G. Fischer, 1814 – moles  
                                        TribeTalpini G. Fischer, 1814  
                                           GenusTalpa Linnaeus, 1758  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Species Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883 – Altai Mole, Siberian Mole 
                                              Species Talpa caeca Savi, 1822 – Blind Mole, Mediterranean Mole 
                                              Species Talpa caucasica Satunin, 1908 – Caucasian Mole 
                                              Species Talpa davidiana (Milne-Edwards, 1884) – Père David's Mole 
                                              Species Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758 – European Mole 
                                              Species Talpa levantis Thomas, 1906 – Levant Mole, Levantine Mole 
                                              Species Talpa occidentalis Cabrera, 1907 – Spanish Mole, Iberian Mole 
                                              Species Talpa romana Thomas, 1902 – Roman Mole 
                                              Species Talpa stankovici V. Martino and E. Martino, 1931 – Balkan Mole, Stankovic's Mole 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Rainer Hutterer  
  Notes: Zoologisches Forschunginstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany   
  Reference for: Talpa    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Talpa   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
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  Reference for: Talpa   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Includes Asioscalops which was retained as a full genus by Yudin (1989:60). Schwarz (1948), Corbet (1978c:36), and Corbet and Hill (1991:38) included Euroscaptor, Parascaptor, Mogera, and Scaptochirus; but these are retained here as full genera, see Abe et al. (1991) and Gureev (1979:256-285). For phylogenetic considerations based on morphology, see Stein (1960) and Grulich (1971); based on allozyme variation, see Filippucci et al. (1987). For a review of European species, see Niethammer an...  
 

 

    

 
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