Genus of mammals
| Euroscaptor | |
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| Greater Chinese mole (Euroscaptor grandis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Talpidae |
| Tribe: | Talpini |
| Genus: | Euroscaptor Miller, 1940 |
| Type species | |
| Talpa klossi[1] Thomas, 1929
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| Species | |
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10 recognized species, see text | |
Euroscaptor is a genus of mammal in the family Talpidae. Members are found in China and South & Southeast Asia. It contains the following species as of October 2021:[2]
- Greater Chinese mole (Euroscaptor grandis)
- Kloss's mole (Euroscaptor klossi)
- Kuznetsov's mole (Euroscaptor kuznetsovi)
- Long-nosed mole (Euroscaptor longirostris)
- Malaysian mole (Euroscaptor malayanus) [3]
- Himalayan mole (Euroscaptor micrurus)
- Ngoc Linh mole (Euroscaptor ngoclinhensis)
- Orlov's mole (Euroscaptor orlovi)
- Small-toothed mole (Euroscaptor parvidens)
- Vietnamese mole (Euroscaptor subanura)[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-08-10), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5175993, retrieved 2021-11-03
- ^ Redescription of the Malaysian Mole as to be a true species Euroscaptor malayana[permanent dead link]
- ^ Kawada, S-I.; et al. (2012). "A new species of mole of the genus Euroscaptor (Soricomorpha, Talpidae) from northern Vietnam". Journal of Mammalogy. 93 (3): 839–850. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-296.1.
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