Talpa occidentalis Cabrera, 1907 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 20:212.

TYPE LOCALITY: C Spain, Guadarrama Mtns, 1200- 1300 m, "La Granja, Segovia" .

DISTRIBUTION: W and C Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain).

COMMENTS: Formerly regarded as a subspecies of caeca, but see Ramalhinho (1985) and Filippucci et al. (1987).