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--> TRIBE Desmanini
--> GENUS Galemys
SPECIES Galemys pyrenaicus
| Author: | E. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1811. | | Citation: | Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 17: 193. | | Common Name: | Pyrenean Desman | | Type Locality: | France, "Les montagnes pres de Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrenees)". | | Distribution: | Streams of the Pyrenees and the northern and central mountains of the Iberian Peninsula (France, Andorra, Spain and Portugal). | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Includes rufulus as a possible subspecies; reviewed by Palmeirim and Hoffmann (1983, Mammalian Species No. 207) and Juckwer (1990). Karyotype has 2n = 42, FN = 68 (Peyre, 1957). |
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