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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Talpidae
--> SUBFAMILY Talpinae
--> TRIBE Talpini
--> GENUS Mogera
SPECIES Mogera tokudae
| Author: | Kuroda, 1940. | | Citation: | [A monograph of Japanese mammals ...], Tokyo and Osaka: 196. | | Common Name: | Sado Mole | | Type Locality: | Japan, Sado Isl. | | Distribution: | Sado Isl and Echigo Plain, Honshu, C Japan. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered as M | | Comments: | Overlooked by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966); included in Talpa robusta by Corbet (1978c); but retained as a separate species by Yoshiyuki (1986) and Abe et al. (1991). Yoshiyuki and Imaizumi (1991) named the Honshu population as a separate species, but Abe (1995, 1996) ascribed the differences between the Sado and Honshu population to geographical size variation. However, considerable genetic (Tsuchiya et al., 2000) and karyological differences exist: the karyotype from Sado is 2n = 36, FN = 60, and from Honshu 2n = 36, FN = 54 (Kawada et al., 2001; Tsuchiya, 1988). |
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