Talpa Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:52.

REVIEWED BY: D. Capolongo (DC); F. Spitzenberger (FS).

COMMENT: Includes Euroscaptor and Asioscalops; formerly included Parascaptor, Mogera, and Scaptochirus; see Gureev, 1979; but also see Corbet and Hill, 1980:33. Imaizumi, 1970, The Handbook of Japanese Land Mammals, Vol. 1, considered Euroscaptor a monotypic genus containing rnizura. This entire group needs revision (OLR).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403006011000000.