Euroscaptor parvidens (Miller, 1940)

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Small-toothed Mole

Euroscaptor parvidens

French: Taupe a petites dents / German: Pakho-Maulwurf / Spanish: Topo de dientes pequenos

Taxonomy. Talpa parvidens G. S. Miller, 1940 ,

“agricultural station Blao, ‘Déléga- tion de Djynrinh’, near the upper Donai River, Annam, French Indo China [= Di Linh, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam].”

Two subspecies are currently recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution. E.p.parvidensG.S.Miller,1940—SVietnam. E. p. ngoclinhensis Zemlemerova et al., 2016 — C highlands of Vietham (Quang Nam

and Kon Tum provinces). Euroscaptor parvidens was reportedly found in S Yunnan (China), but the species identification should be reevaluated.

Descriptive notes. Head—body 135-150 mm,tail 5-5-10-5 mm, hindfoot 13-5-16 mm; weight 37-3-71-7 g. Tail of the Small-toothed Mole is 4:1-7-1% of head-body length. Body is long, with short tail; most of proximaltail vertebrae are under huge hip. Fur is brownish. Upper molars are conspicuously small. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 36 and FNa = 60.

Habitat. Mountain forests.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. The Small-toothed Mole is fossorial.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The Smalltoothed Mole occurs in two isolated distributions in Central Highlands and southern Vietnam and is poorly known.

Bibliography. Abramov et al. (2013), Hoffmann & Lunde (2008), Kawada (2016), Kawada, Nguyen Truong Son & Dang Ngoc Can (2008, 2009), Zemlemerova, Bannikova, Abramov et al. (2013), Zemlemerova, Bannikova, Lebedev et al. (2016).

Figures

22. Altai Mole (Talpa altaica), 23. Pere David’s Mole (Talpa davidiana), 24. Talysch Mole (Talpa talyschensis), 25. Ognev’s Mole (Talpa ognevi), 26. Caucasian Mole (Talpa caucasica), 27. Levant Mole (Talpa levantis), 28. Balkan Mole (Talpa stankovici), 29. Blind Mole (Talpa caeca), 30. Roman Mole (Talpa romana), 31. Iberian Mole (Talpa occidentalis), 32. European Mole (Talpa europaea), 33. Aquitanian Mole (Talpa aquitania), 34. Japanese Mountain Mole (Oreoscaptor mizura), 35. Ussuri Mole (Mogera robusta), 36. Large Japanese Mole (Mogera wogura), 37. Small Japanese Mole (Mogera imaizumii), 38. Sado Mole (Mogera tokudae), 39. Echigo Mole (Mogera etigo), 40. Senkaku Mole (Mogera uchidai), 41. Insular Mole (Mogera insularis), 42. Kano’s Mole (Mogera kanoana), 43. La Touche’s Mole (Mogera latoucher), 44. Himalayan Mole (Ewroscaptor micrurus), 45. Greater Chinese Mole (Euroscaptor grandis), 46. Long-nosed Mole (Euroscaptor longurostris), 47. Kloss’s Mole (Euroscaptor klosst), 48. Kuznetsov’s Mole (Euroscaptor kuznetsovi), 49. Orlov’s Mole (Euroscaptor orlovi), 50. Vietnamese Mole (Euroscaptor subanura), 51. Small-toothed Mole (Euroscaptor parvidens), 52. Malaysian Mole (Euroscaptor malayanus), 53. White-tailed Mole (Parascaptor lewcurus), 54. Short-faced Mole (Scaptochirus moschatus)

Subspecies and Distribution. E.p.parvidensG.S.Miller,1940—SVietnam. E. p. ngoclinhensis Zemlemerova et al., 2016 — C highlands of Vietham (Quang Nam and Kon Tum provinces). Euroscaptor parvidens was reportedly found in S Yunnan (China), but the species identification should be reevaluated.