Talpa levantis Thomas 1906

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 309

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scientific name	Talpa levantis Thomas 1906
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Talpa levantis Thomas 1906 View in CoL

Talpa levantis Thomas 1906 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17: 416.

Type Locality: Turkey, S Trabzon, Scalita (= Altindere).

Vernacular Names: Levant Mole.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. levantis Thomas 1906

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. minima Deparma 1960

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. talyschensis Vereschchagin 1945

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. transcaucasica Dahl 1944

Distribution: Bulgaria, Thracia and N Anatolia ( Turkey), and adjacent Caucasus.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: On specific status, see Grulich (1972) and Felten et al. (1973). Reviewed by Sokolov and Tembotov (1989), Zaitsev (1999), and Kryštufek (2001 a, b). European records by Vohralík (1991). Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68 ( Kefelioglu and Gencoglu, 1996).