Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Talpa altaica Nikolsky 1883

Description

Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883. Trans. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg, 14:165.

TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Altai Mtns, Valley of Tourak.

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of Siberia between Ob and Lena rivers; south to N Mongolia.

COMMENTS: Placed by Yudin (1989:52) in genus Asioscalops; but see Corbet (1978c:33). Kratochvll and Krâl (1972) provided karyological evidence for a separation of altaica from the remaining Talpa species.

Notes

Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Talpidae
Genus
Talpa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Nikolsky
Species
altaica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Yudin, B. S. 1989. Nasekomoyadnye mlekopitayushchie Sibiri [Insectivorous mammals of Siberia]. Nauka, Sibirskoe Otdelenie, Novosibirsk, 360 pp. (in Russian).
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.