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SPECIES Talpa levantis

Author:Thomas, 1906.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17: 416.
Common Name:Levant Mole
Type Locality:Turkey, S Trabzon, Scalita (= Altindere).
Distribution:Bulgaria, Thracia and N Anatolia (Turkey), and adjacent Caucasus.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:On specific status, see Grulich (1972) and Felten et al. (1973). Reviewed by Sokolov and Tembotov (1989), Zaitsev (1999), and Kryštufek (2001a, b). European records by Vohralík (1991). Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68 (Kefelioglu and Gencoglu, 1996).
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SUBSPECIES levantis

SUBSPECIES minima

SUBSPECIES talyschensis

SUBSPECIES transcaucasica

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