Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758

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Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758

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

Type Locality: Sweden, Kristianstad, Engelholm.

Vernacular Names: European Mole.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. europaea Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. cinerea Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. velessiensis Petrov 1941

Distribution: Temperate Europe including Britain to the Ob and Irtysh Rivers ( Russia) in the east.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Husson and Heurn (1959) recognized and named twelve color morphs from the Netherlands that are not listed here. Does not include altaica , caucasica , romana , and stankovici ; see comments under these species. Only europaea and cinerea were regarded as subspecies by Niethammer (in Niethammer and Krapp, 1990). Doğramaci (1989) considered velessiensis as the valid subspecies for Turkish Thrace. A biological review of the species was provided by Witte (1997). Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68 ( Kratochvil and Kral, 1972).