Talpa caeca Savi, 1822 . Nuovo Giorn. de Letterati, Pisa, 1:265.

TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, Pisa .

DISTRIBUTION: S Europe and (doubtfully) Asia Minor; Alps, Apennines, Balkan, Thrazia.

SYNONYMS: augustana, beaucournui, dobyi, hercegovinensis, olympica, steini (see Niethammer, in Niethammer and Krapp, 1990).

COMMENTS: Relationships to the Caucasus moles ( caucasico, levantis) unsolved.