Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883

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

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scientific name	Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883
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Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883 . Trans. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg, 14:165.

TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Altai Mtns, Valley of Tourak .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of Siberia between Ob and Lena rivers; south to N Mongolia.

COMMENTS: Placed by Yudin (1989:52) in genus Asioscalops ; but see Corbet (1978c:33). Kratochvll and Krâl (1972) provided karyological evidence for a separation of altaica from the remaining Talpa species.