Talpidae G. Fischer 1814

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 : 300

Talpidae G. Fischer 1814

Talpidae G. Fischer 1814 , Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis Illustrata, Vol. 3: x.

Synonyms: Desmaninae Thomas 1912 ; Myaladae Gray 1821 ; Myogalidae A. Milne-Edwards 1868 ; Myogalina Bonaparte 1845 ; Scalopidae Cope 1889 ; Talpinorum G. Fischer 1814 .

Genera: 17 genera with 39 species in 3 subfamilies and 7 tribes:

Subfamily Scalopinae Gill 1875

Tribe Condylurini Gill 1875

Genus Condylura Illiger 1811 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Tribe Scalopini Gill 1875

Genus Parascalops True 1894 (1 species)

Genus Scalopus E. Geoffroy 1803 (1 species with 16 subspecies)

Genus Scapanulus Thomas 1912 (1 species)

Genus Scapanus Pomel 1848 (3 species with 16 subspecies)

Subfamily Talpinae G. Fischer 1814

Tribe Desmanini Thomas 1912

Genus Desmana Guldenstaedt 1777 (1 species)

Genus Galemys Kaup 1829 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Tribe Neurotrichini Hutterer 2005

Genus Neurotrichus Günther 1880 (1 species with 3 subspecies)

Tribe Scaptonychini Van Valen 1967

Genus Scaptonyx Milne-Edwards 1872 (1 species)

Tribe Talpini G. Fischer 1814

Genus Euroscaptor Miller 1940 (6 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Mogera Pomel 1848 (5 species with 7 subspecies)

Genus Parascaptor Gill 1875 (1 species)

Genus Scaptochirus Milne-Edwards 1867 (1 species)

Genus Talpa Linnaeus 1758 (9 species with 22 subspecies)

Tribe Urotrichini Dobson 1883

Genus Dymecodon True 1886 (1 species)

Genus Urotrichus Temminck 1841 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Subfamily Uropsilinae Dobson 1883

Genus Uropsilus Milne-Edwards 1871 (4 species)

Discussion: Subfamily systematics controversal. Cabrera (1925) proposed a division into five subfamilies, Yates (1984), Hutterer (1993 a), and others used three subfamilies. Includes also the extinct Gaillardiinae Hutchison, 1968. Scalopinae is used here as a subfamily, contra Hutchison (1968) and others. Desmana and Galemys were often placed in a separate family, Desmanidae, or subfamily, Desmaninae; see Bobrinskii et al. (1965), and McKenna and Bell (1997). The present arrangement of subfamilies and tribes is mainly based on the genetic study of Shinohara et al. (2003). It deviates from the previous edition ( Hutterer, 1993 a) and from most other sources. Family reviewed by Gureev (1979); see also Gorman and Stone (1990). Relationships of recent moles discussed by Ziegler (1971), Yates and Moore (1990), Whidden (1990), and Shinohara et al. (2003). Systematics of North American forms reviewed by Yates and Greenbaum (1982); of Palearctic forms by Corbet (1978 c); of Siberian forms by Yudin (1989); of Japanese forms by Abe (1988), Motokawa and Abe (1996), Motokawa et al. (2001 b), Okamoto (1999), and Tsuchiya et al. (2000). Phylogeny of Urotrichini discussed by Storch and Qiu (1983). Skull morphology described by Koppers (1990), myology by Whidden (1990, and references therein). Karyotype data reviewed by Yates and Schmidly (1975) and Kawada et al. (2002 b).