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Mogera tokudae Kuroda 1940

Description

Mogera tokudae Kuroda 1940

Mogera tokudae Kuroda 1940, [A monograph of Japanese mammals ...], Tokyo and Osaka: 196.

Type Locality: Japan, Sado Isl.

Vernacular Names: Sado Mole.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Mogera tokudae subsp. tokudae Kuroda 1940

Subspecies Mogera tokudae subsp. etigo Yoshiyuki and Imaizumi 1991

Distribution: Sado Isl and Echigo Plain, Honshu, C Japan.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered as M.

Discussion: Overlooked by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966); included in Talpa robusta by Corbet (1978 c); but retained as a separate species by Yoshiyuki (1986) and Abe et al. (1991). Yoshiyuki and Imaizumi (1991) named the Honshu population as a separate species, but Abe (1995, 1996) ascribed the differences between the Sado and Honshu population to geographical size variation. However, considerable genetic (Tsuchiya et al., 2000) and karyological differences exist: the karyotype from Sado is 2n = 36, FN = 60, and from Honshu 2n = 36, FN = 54 (Kawada et al., 2001; Tsuchiya, 1988).

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 306, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kuroda
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Talpidae
Genus
Mogera
Species
tokudae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mogera tokudae Kuroda, 1940 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Yoshiyuki, M., and Y. Imaizumi. 1991. Taxonomic status of the large mole from the Echigo plain, central Japan, with description of a new species (Mammalia, Insectivora, Talpidae). Bulletin of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), ser. A, 17: 101 - 110.
  • 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.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Abe, H., S. Shiraishi, and S. Arai. 1991. A new mole from Uotsuri-jima, the Ryukyu Islands. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 15: 47 - 60.
  • Abe, H. 1995. Revision of the Asian moles of the genus Mogera. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 20: 51 - 68.
  • 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.
  • 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. 1988. Cytotaxonomic studies of the family Talpidae from Japan. Honyurui Kagaku, 28: 49 - 61 (in Japanese).