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

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Trabzon, Scalita (= Altyn Dereh) .

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

SYNONYMS: minima, orientalis, talyschensis, transcaucasica.

COMMENTS: On specific status, see Grulich (1972) and Felten et al. (1973). Reviewed by Sokolov and Tembotov (1989). European records by Vohralfk (1991).