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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Spalacidae
--> SUBFAMILY Spalacinae
--> GENUS Spalax
SPECIES Spalax uralensis
| Author: | Tiflov and Usov, 1939. | | Citation: | Vestn. Microbiol. Epidemiol. And Parasitol., 17: 141. | | Common Name: | Kazakhstan Blind Mole Rat | | Type Locality: | W Kazakhstan, Chingerlauz region (see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987:164). | | Distribution: | Steppes in W Kazakhstan between the Ural and Emba Rivers (Puzachenko, 1993). | | Comments: | An allopatric, morphologically close relative of S. giganteus, in which it was once synonymized (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b) until shown to be a separate entity by Puzachenko’s (1993) morphometric analyses. Distribution as summarized by other researchers includes S. giganteus from steppes west of the Caspian Sea (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b). |
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