Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt 1770

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Spalacidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 907-926 : 907

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11333865

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scientific name

Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt 1770
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Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt 1770 View in CoL

Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt 1770 View in CoL , Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petropoli, 14: 1.

Type Locality: Russia, Voronezhskaya Oblast, Novokhoper Steppe.

Vernacular Names: Greater Blind Mole Rat.

Synonyms: Spalax pallasii Nordmann 1839 ; Spalax typhlus (Pallus 1779) .

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., 1977 b; clearly mapped by Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995).

Conservation: IUCN - Vulnerable.

Discussion: Monographed by Topachevskii (1969) and maintained as a species by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987, 1998) and Pavlinov et al. (1995 a). Zagorodnyuk (1992 b) endorsed the synonymy. Chromosomal features (2n = 60, FN = 115-120) recorded by Lyapunova et al. (1974) and summarized by Nevo et al. (2001). Reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995). Although not currently recorded from Romania, it has been identified at Pleistocene localities in that country ( Kowalski, 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Spalacidae

Genus

Spalax

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Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt 1770

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Spalax microphthalmus

Guldenstaedt 1770: 1
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