Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758

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Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758

Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 52 .

Type Locality: Sweden, Kristianstad, Engelholm.

Vernacular Names: European Mole.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. europaea Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. cinerea Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. velessiensis Petrov 1941

Distribution: Temperate Europe including Britain to the Ob and Irtysh Rivers ( Russia) in the east.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Husson and Heurn (1959) recognized and named twelve color morphs from the Netherlands that are not listed here. Does not include altaica , caucasica , romana , and stankovici ; see comments under these species. Only europaea and cinerea were regarded as subspecies by Niethammer ( in Niethammer and Krapp, 1990). Doğramaci (1989) considered velessiensis as the valid subspecies for Turkish Thrace. A biological review of the species was provided by Witte (1997). Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68 ( Kratochvil and Kral, 1972).