Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt, 1770

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 755

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scientific name	Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt, 1770
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Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt, 1770 . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petropoli, 14:1

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Voronezhskaya Oblast, Novokhoper Steppe .

DISTRIBUTION: Steppes in Ukraine and S Russia between Dnieper and Volga rivers, north to Orel-Kursk line, and south to Ciscaucasia (see Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b).

SYNONYMS: pallosi, typhlus .

COMMENTS: Monographed by Topachevskii (1969) and maintained as a species by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987).

References

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Topachevskii, V. A. 1969. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, Tom 3, vyp. 3. Slepyshovye (Spalacidae) [Fauna of the USSR: Mammals. Mole rats, Spalacidae]. Nauka Publishers, Leningrad Section, Leningrad, 248 pp.

Vorontsov, N. N., L. Ya. Martynova, and I. I. Fomichova. 1977 b. [An electrophoretic comparison of the blood proteins in mole rats of the fauna of the USSR (Spalacinae, Rodentia).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 56: 1207 - 1215 (in Russian).