Biology:Talpinae

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Short description: Subfamily of mammals

Talpinae
Desmana moschata MHNT.INS.10.jpg
Russian desman (Desmana moschata)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Subfamily: Talpinae
G. Fischer, 1814
Genera

See species list

The subfamily Talpinae,[1] sometimes called "Old World moles" or "Old World moles and relatives", is one of three subfamilies of the mole family Talpidae, the others being the Scalopinae, or New World moles, and the Uropsilinae, or shrew-like moles.

These mammals in the order Eulipotyphla mainly live under ground. The species in this group are all found in Eurasia, except Neurotrichus gibbsii. Most species have front paws specialized for tunneling which are clawed and face outwards from the body. They mainly eat insects and other small invertebrates.

Taxonomy

Although most systems recognize this subfamily as monophyletic, some studies indicate that it as currently defined is paraphyletic with respect to the Scalopinae, with Desmanini being the most basal member, then a clade comprising Neurotrichini, Scaptonychini, and Urotrichini, then the Condylurini (otherwise classified in the Scalopinae), and then Talpini and Scalopini being sister groups to one another.[2]

The list of species is:[3]

References

  1. Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M.. eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 302-310. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp. 
  2. Schwermann, Achim H.; He, Kai; Peters, Benjamin J.; Plogschties, Thorsten; Sansalone, Gabriele (2019). "Systematics and macroevolution of extant and fossil scalopine moles (Mammalia, Talpidae)" (in en). Palaeontology 62 (4): 661–676. doi:10.1111/pala.12422. ISSN 1475-4983. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pala.12422. 
  3. Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-08-10), Mammal Diversity Database, https://zenodo.org/record/5175993, retrieved 2021-10-13 
  4. Redescription of the Malaysian Mole as to be a true species Euroscaptor malayana[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  5. Kawada, S-I. (2012). "A new species of mole of the genus Euroscaptor (Soricomorpha, Talpidae) from northern Vietnam". Journal of Mammalogy 93 (3): 839–850. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-296.1. 
  6. Nicolas, Violaine; Martínez-Vargas, Jessica; Hugot, Jean-Pierre (2017). "Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain". Mammalia 81 (6): 641–642. doi:10.1515/MAMMALIA-2017-0057. https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01829495/file/221-MAMM-2017_sans%20marque.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q678627 entry