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Mogera wogura

Description

Mogera wogura (Temminck 1842)

[Talpa] wogura Temminck 1842, in: Siebold, Fauna Japonica, 1 (Mamm.), 1: 19.

Type Locality: Japan; restricted to Yokohama, Honshu by Thomas (1905 b), but believed to have come from W or S Kyushu by Abe (1995).

Vernacular Names: Japanese Mole.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Mogera wogura subsp. wogura Temminck 1842

Subspecies Mogera wogura subsp. robusta Nehring 1891

Distribution: Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Senkaku, Tane, Amakusa, Tsushima and other Isls), Korea to NE China and adjacent Siberia (Abe, 1995, 1996).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as M. wogura, M. kobeau, and M. robusta.

Discussion: For a taxonomic discussion see Corbet (1978 c), who treated robusta as a different species. European authors often included kobeae and tokudae; however, Japanese authors (Imaizumi 1970 b; Yoshiyuki 1988 b) treated them as separate species. Formerly included in Talpa; but see Imaizumi (1970 b), Gureev (1979), and Gromov and Baranova (1981). The present arrangement follows Abe (1995). However, moles from Japan have a different karyotype (2n = 36, FN = 52) than moles from the Korean mainland (2n = 36, FN = 58) (Kawada et al., 2001). Mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences studied by Tsuchiya et al. (2000) revealed three clades in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu) and two distinct clades on the mainland of Korea and E Russia.

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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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Temminck
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Talpidae
Genus
Mogera
Species
wogura
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mogera wogura (Temminck, 1842) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Thomas, O. 1905 b. On new Japanese mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 15: 487 - 495.
  • Abe, H. 1995. Revision of the Asian moles of the genus Mogera. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 20: 51 - 68.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Imaizumi, Y. 1970 b. The handbook of Japanese land mammals. Shin-Shichoa-Sha, Tokyo, 350 pp.
  • Yoshiyuki, M. 1988 b. Notes on Thai mammals 1. Talpidae (Insectivora). Bulletin of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), ser. A, 14: 215 - 222.
  • Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).
  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
  • 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.