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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Talpidae
--> SUBFAMILY Talpinae
--> TRIBE Talpini
--> GENUS Mogera
SPECIES Mogera imaizumii
| Author: | Kuroda, 1957. | | Citation: | J. Mammal. Soc. Japan, 1: 74. | | Common Name: | Small Japanese Mole | | Type Locality: | Japan, Honshu, Tochigi Pref., Shiobara. | | Distribution: | Shikoku and N and SC Honshu, Japan. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as M. minor. | | Comments: | Included in Talpa [Euroscaptor] micrura by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966); but retained as a separate species by Yoshiyuki (1986). Renamed Talpa wogura imaizumii by Kuroda (1957) for homonymy with Talpa europaea var. minor. In a revision of Japanese moles Abe (1995) reintroduced the name M. minor, but Motokawa and Abe (1996) subsequently corrected this view. Karyotype from Honshu has 2n = 36, FN = 54 (Kawada et al., 2001). Populations from E Honshu and W Honshu plus Shikoku exhibit considerable genetic differences (Tsuchiya et al., 2000). |
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