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Spalax judaei Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles 2001

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Spalax judaei Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles 2001

Spalax judaei Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles 2001, Adaptive Radiation of Blind Subterranean Mole Rats: 23.

Type Locality: C Israel, Judean Mtns, Lahav.

Vernacular Names: Judean Mountains Blind Mole Rat.

Distribution: Recorded from Anza, Jerusalem, Lahav, Sede Boqer, Wadi Fara, Jiftlik, Dimona, and Ramat Hovav in Judean highlands of C Israel (see Nevo et al., 2001:19).

Discussion: Member of S. ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel, 2n = 60 (Nevo et al., 2001). See account of S. ehrenbergi.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Spalacidae, pp. 907-926 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 907, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Spalacidae
Genus
Spalax
Species
judaei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spalax judaei Nevo, 2001 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Nevo, E., E. Ivanitskaya, and A. Beiles. 2001. Adaptive radiation of blind subterranean mole rats: Naming and revisiting the four sibling species of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel: Spalax galili (2 n = 52), S. golani (2 n = 54), S. carmeli (2 n = 58) and S. judaei (2 n = 60). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 195 pp.