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TRIBE Desmanini
Author: | Thomas, 1912. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 10: 397. | Comments: | Commonly regarded as a subfamily, sometimes even as a separate family; see Barabasch-Nikiforow (1975). Hutchinson (1974) concluded that Desmaninae and Talpidae were separated since the Eocene. Taxonomy of fossil and extant taxa reviewed by Rümke (1985). Distribution and status reviewed by Queiroz et al. (1996). |
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| Offspring: GENUS Desmana SPECIES moschata GENUS Galemys SPECIES pyrenaicus SUBSPECIES pyrenaicus SUBSPECIES rufulus | Synonyms:
Myaladae Gray, 1821 Myogalina Bonaparte, 1837 Mygalina Pomel, 1848 Myogalidae A. Milne-Edwards, 1868 Myogalinae Gill, 1875 Myogalini Winge, 1917
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