Subfamily Talpinae Fischer von Waldheim, 1817 . Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat., Moscow, 5:372.

SYNONYMS: Condylurinae, Scalopinae, Urotrichinae.

COMMENTS: Includes Condylurini, Scalopini, Scaptonychini, Urotrichini and Talpini as tribes; see Hutchison (1968) and Storch and Qiu (1983). Some of these are sometimes regarded as subfamilies; see comments under family. Generic and specific limits are highly controversial, particularly in the Talpa group. No data-based consensus has yet been reached on the taxonomy of many Palearctic and East Asiatic moles.