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Mogera imaizumii Kuroda 1957

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Mogera imaizumii Kuroda 1957

Mogera imaizumii Kuroda 1957, J. Mammal. Soc. Japan, 1: 74.

Type Locality: Japan, Honshu, Tochigi Pref., Shiobara.

Vernacular Names: Small Japanese Mole.

Synonyms: Mogera minor (Kuroda 1936).

Distribution: Shikoku and N and SC Honshu, Japan.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as M. minor.

Discussion: Included in Talpa [Euroscaptor] micrura by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966); but retained as a separate species by Yoshiyuki (1986). Renamed Talpa wogura imaizumii by Kuroda (1957) for homonymy with Talpa europaea var. minor. In a revision of Japanese moles Abe (1995) reintroduced the name M. minor, but Motokawa and Abe (1996) subsequently corrected this view. Karyotype from Honshu has 2n = 36, FN = 54 (Kawada et al., 2001). Populations from E Honshu and W Honshu plus Shikoku exhibit considerable genetic differences (Tsuchiya et al., 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 305, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kuroda
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Talpidae
Genus
Mogera
Species
imaizumii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mogera imaizumii Kuroda, 1957 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Kuroda, N. 1957. A new name for the lesser Japanese mole. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 1: 74.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1966. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. Second ed. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
  • Abe, H. 1995. Revision of the Asian moles of the genus Mogera. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 20: 51 - 68.
  • Motokawa, M., and H. Abe. 1996. On the specific names of the Japanese moles of the genus Mogera (Insectivora, Talpidae). Mammal Study, 21: 115 - 123.
  • Kawada, S., M. Harada, Y. Obara, S. Kobayashi, K. Koyasu, and S. Oda. 2001. Karyosystematic analysis of Japanese talpine moles in the genera Euroscaptor and Mogera (Insectivora, Talpidae). Zoological Science, 18: 1003 - 1010.
  • Tsuchiya, K., H. Suzuki, A. Shinohara, M. Harada, S. Wakana, M. Sakaizumi, S. - H. Han, L. - K. Lin, and A. P. Kryukov. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of East Asian moles inferred from the sequence variation of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Genes and Genetic Systems, 75: 17 - 24.