Talpini Explained

Talpini is a tribe of mammals known as Old World moles. It is a division of the subfamily Talpinae.

This tribe contains the following genera and species:

• Tribe Talpini
  • Genus Euroscaptor
    • Greater Chinese mole, E. grandis
    • Kloss's mole, E. klossi
    • Kuznetsov's mole, E. kuznetsovi
    • Long-nosed mole, E. longirostris
    • Malaysian mole, E. malayanus ^[1]
    • Himalayan mole, E. micrurus
    • Ngoc Linh mole, E. ngoclinhensis
    • Orlov's mole, E. orlovi
    • Small-toothed mole, E. parvidens
    • Vietnamese mole, E. subanura^[2]
  • Genus Mogera
    • Echigo mole, M. etigo
    • Small Japanese mole, M. imaizumii
    • Insular mole, M. insularis
    • Kano's mole, M. kanoana
    • La Touche's mole, M. latouchei
    • Ussuri mole, M. robusta
    • Sado mole, M. tokudae
    • Senkaku mole, M. uchidai
    • Japanese mole, M. wogura
  • Genus Oreoscaptor
    • Japanese mountain mole, O. mizura
  • Genus Parascaptor
    • White-tailed mole, P. leucura
  • Genus Scaptochirus - China
    • Short-faced mole, S. moschatus
  • Genus Talpa
    • Altai mole, T. altaica
    • Aquitanian mole, T. aquitania^[3]
    • Blind mole, T. caeca
    • Caucasian mole, T. caucasica
    • Père David's mole, T. davidiana
    • European mole, T. europaea
    • Levant mole, T. levantis
    • Martino's mole, T. martinorum
    • Spanish mole, T. occidentalis
    • Ognev's mole, T. ognevi
    • Roman mole, T. romana
    • Balkan mole, T. stankovici
    • Talysch mole, T. talyschensis

Further reading

• Web site: Tribe Talpini (Old World moles) . Animal Diversity Web . 2008-07-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080725020801/http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Talpini.html.
• Sánchez-Villagra . Marcelo R. . Horovitz . Inés . Masaharu Motokawa . February 2006 . A comprehensive morphological analysis of talpid moles (Mammalia) phylogenetic relationships . Cladistics . 22 . 1 . 59-88 . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00087.x . free.
• Masaharu Motokawa . June 2004 . Phylogenetic relationships within the family Talpidae (Mammalia: Insectivora) . Journal of Zoology . 263 . 2 . 147-157 . 10.1017/S0952836904004972.

Notes and References

1. Shin-ichiro Kawada . Masatoshi Yasuda . Akio Shinohara . Boo Liat Lim . March 28, 2008 . Redescription of the Malaysian Mole as to be a True Species, Euroscaptor malayana (Insectivora, Talpidae) . 国立科博専報 . Mem. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci. . Tokyo . 45 . 65–74 . 90029800 . Alternate source
2. Kawada, S-I.. etal. 2012. A new species of mole of the genus Euroscaptor (Soricomorpha, Talpidae) from northern Vietnam. Journal of Mammalogy. 93. 3. 839–850. 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-296.1. free.
3. Nicolas. Violaine. Martínez-Vargas. Jessica. Hugot. Jean-Pierre. 2017. Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain. Mammalia. 81. 6. 641–642. 10.1515/MAMMALIA-2017-0057. 90926022.