Mogera robusta Nehring, 1891

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 29-31

Mogera robusta Nehring, 1891 —Ussuri Mole

Mogera robusta Nehring, 1891 p.96 ; Type locality- Vladivostok, Russia; Won, 1968 p.47; Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.11.

M. wogura coreana Thomas, 1907b p.463 ; Tate, 1947 p.44; Won, 1968 p.45.

Talpa wogura coreana: Jones & Johnson, 1960 p.572 ; Won, 1968 p.45; Yoon, 1992 p.28.

T. wogura robusta: Jones & Johnson, 1960 p.573 .

T. micrura: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.39 .

T. micrura coreana: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.41 ; Won, 1958 p.453; Won, 1967 p.287.

T. micrura robusta: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.40 ; Won, 1958 p.453; Won, 1967 p.292.

T. robusta: Corbet, 1978 p.35 .

T. robusta coreana: Corbet, 1978 p.36

M. wogura robusta: Corbet & Hill, 1991 p.38 .

T. robusta robusta: Corbet, 1978 p.36 ; Yoon, 1992 p.28.

M. wogura: Won & Smith, 1999 p.11 ; Han, 2004a p.22.

Range: The Ussuri mole commonly inhabits friable soils over most of Korea except remote islands (3 rd National Nature-Environmental Survey 2006–2013 unpublished electronic data; Fig. 16 ).

Remarks: Two subspecies, M. r. robusta Nehring, 1891 and M. r. coreana Thomas, 1907 were recorded in Korea. Based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene analysis, M. robusta from South Korea clustered with samples from the Russian Far East ( Tsuchiya et al. 2000). Also, the moles of South Korea showed no genetic divergence (rRNA and cytochrome b gene) from moles in northeastern China and Russian Far East, despite considerable morphological differences with M. wogura ( Koh et al. 2012b) . The larger M. r. robusta inhabits alpine environments in extreme northern Korea and the smaller M. r. coreana occupies most of Korea except the extreme North. Hutterer (2005b) regarded M. robusta as a subspecies of M. wogura .

Figures

FIGURE 16. Range map of Mogera robusta in Korea.