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Spalax giganteus Nehring 1898

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Spalax giganteus Nehring, 1898. Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 169.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Daghestan, W shore of Caspian Sea, near MakhachKaly.

DISTRIBUTION: Isolated populations in steppes NW of the Caspian Sea and in Kazakhstan between the Volga River and W margin of the Caspian Sea between the Dnepr and Ural rivers (see Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b).

SYNONYMS: uralensis.

COMMENTS: Revised by Topachevskii (1969) and listed as a separate species by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Geographic range is parapatric with that of S. microphthalmus (Corbet, 1978c).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 754-755, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Nehring
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Spalax
Species
giganteus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spalax giganteus Nehring, 1898 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Topachevskii, V. A. 1969. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, Tom 3, vyp. 3. Slepyshovye (Spalacidae) [Fauna of the USSR: Mammals. Mole rats, Spalacidae]. Nauka Publishers, Leningrad Section, Leningrad, 248 pp.
  • Vorontsov, N. N., L. Ya. Martynova, and I. I. Fomichova. 1977 b. [An electrophoretic comparison of the blood proteins in mole rats of the fauna of the USSR (Spalacinae, Rodentia).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 56: 1207 - 1215 (in Russian).
  • Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.