Talpa Linnaeus, 1758

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 128

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

TYPE SPECIES: Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Asioscalops .

COMMENTS: Includes Asioscalops which was retained as a full genus by Yudin (1989:60). Schwarz (1948), Corbet (1978c:36), and Corbet and Hill (1991:38) included Euroscaptor , Parascaptor, Mogera, and Scaptochirus; but these are retained here as full genera, see Abe et al. (1991) and Gureev (1979:256-285). For phylogenetic considerations based on morphology, see Stein (1960) and Grulich (1971); based on allozyme variation, see Filippucci et al. (1987). For a review of European species, see Niethammer and Krapp (1990).