|
HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Talpidae
--> SUBFAMILY Talpinae
--> TRIBE Talpini
--> GENUS Talpa
SPECIES Talpa occidentalis
| Author: | Cabrera, 1907. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 20: 212. | | Common Name: | Spanish Mole | | Type Locality: | C Spain, Guadarrama Mtns, 1200-1300 m, "La Granja, Segovia". | | Distribution: | W and C Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Formerly regarded as a subspecies of caeca, but see Ramalhinho (1985) and Filippucci et al. (1987). Reviewed by Niethammer (in Niethammer and Krapp, 1990). Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68. Dental morphology of occidentalis and europaea described by Cleef-Roders and Hoek Ostende (2001). |
|
| |
|
|
