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--> TRIBE Desmanini
--> GENUS Desmana
SPECIES Desmana moschata
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 59. | | Common Name: | Desman | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Russiae aquosis." | | Distribution: | Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan; Don, Volga, and Ural Rivers and their tributaries; introduced into Tachan and Tartas Rivers (Ob basin) and Dnepr River. Almost extinct in Belarus. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Borodin (1963), Barabash-Nikiforov (1968, 1975), Khakhin and Ivanov (1990), and Queiroz et al. (1996) reviewed the morphology, distribution and ecology of the species. Dental formula discussed by Kawada et al. (2002c). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
moschatus Linnaeus, 1958
moscovitica (Geoffroy, 1811)
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