HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Spalacidae
--> SUBFAMILY Spalacinae
--> GENUS Spalax
SPECIES Spalax galili
Author: | Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles, 2001. | Citation: | Adaptive Radiation of Blind Subterranean Mole Rats: 23. | Common Name: | Upper Galilee Mountains Blind Mole Rat | Type Locality: | Extreme N Israel, Upper Galilee Mtns, Kerem Ben Zimra. | Distribution: | Known from Ma’alot, Kerem Ben Zimra, and Qiryat Shemona in Upper Galilee Mtns near border with Lebanon (see Nevo et al., 2001:19). | Comments: | Member of S. ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel, 2n = 52 (Nevo et al., 2001). See account of S. ehrenbergi. |
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