Euroscaptor Miller, 1940 . J. Mammal., 21:443.

TYPE SPECIES: Talpa klossi Thomas, 1929 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Talpini . Corbet (1978c:32), and subsequent work, included Euroscaptor in Talpa while Russian and Japanese authors retained it as a genus; most recently Abe et al. (1991). Species allocations and limits are tentative.