Spalax Guldenstaedt, 1770

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 754

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Spalax Guldenstaedt, 1770 . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petropoli, ser. 14, 1:410.

TYPE SPECIES: Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt, 1770 .

SYNONYMS: Anotis , Aspalax , Macrospalax , Myospalax (of Hermann, 1783, not Laxmann, 1769), Ommatostergus, Talpoides .

COMMENTS: Peshev (1989a, b) illuminated interspecific differences among the five species, as well as sexual dimorphism within each, using morphometric techniques. Compared with Nannospalax , karyotypic characteristics of Spalax species include high diploid and fundamental numbers, no acrocentric chromosomes, smaller interspecific differences in karyotypic structure, and lack of significant interpopulation variation (Savie and Nevo, 1990).