identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
9277E704FFFBFFCA853B98D232322A4B.text	9277E704FFFBFFCA853B98D232322A4B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Talpa aquitania Nicolas, Martinez-Vargas et Hugot 2015	<div><p>Talpa aquitania</p><p>Holotype</p><p>MNHN-ZM-2016-471 (VN 1789). Collected in 2013. France-86280, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-0.348&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=46.546" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -0.348/lat 46.546)">Saint-Benoît</a>, 46.546°N- 0.348°W. Adult female: whole body preserved in ethanol.</p><p>Paratypes</p><p>Tissues preserved in ethanol and RnaLater; skulls extracted (national collection number, field number, date of collect, locality and district of collection, geographic coordinates, name of collector, age and sex). MNHN-ZM-2016-472 (YA0346). 06/10/2013, France- 63320, Creste, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-3.043&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=45.55" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -3.043/lat 45.55)">Issoire</a>, 45.550°N- 3.043°W, Bernard Pradier, adult female . MNHN-ZM-2016-473 (YA0386). 13/04/2014, France- 63190, Lezoux, alt. 833 m, 45.828°N- 3.380°W, J-Michel Georgeon, adult female .</p><p>Diagnosis and distribution</p><p>Talpa aquitania can unambiguously be distinguished from its sister-related species, Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 and Talpa occidentalis Cabrera 1907, by a unique combination of characters:</p><p>The eyelids are fused together. As observed in Talpa occidentalis, the eye is completely covered by membranes. This characteristic differs from what is observed in Talpa europaea, which has open eyes.</p><p>*Corresponding author: Jean-Pierre Hugot, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France, e-mail: hugot@mnhn.fr Violaine Nicolas: Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France</p><p>Weight, head, body and hind-foot lengths are significantly greater in Talpa aquitania (weight: 89 ± 17 g, head and body: 149 ± 7 mm, foot: 21.5 ± 1.5 mm) than in Talpa europaea and Talpa occidentalis (Nicolas et al. 2015) .</p><p>The mesostyle of the upper first molar (M1) is simple in Talpa aquitania and Talpa europaea, while it is double in Talpa occidentalis . In T. occidentalis and T. europaea, the mesostyles of the upper second molar (M2) and the upper third molar (M3) are divided into two cusps. The two cusps are of subequal size, and they are aligned on a plane that extends parallel to the parastyle and the metastyle. Some T. aquitania specimens have a simple mesostyle in M2, and other specimens show an additional minute cusp. Unlike in T. europaea and T. occidentalis, this cusp is much smaller than the main cusp of the mesostyle and is located in the crest that connects the mesostyle to the metacone of M2 that is in a more lingual position than the mesostyle itself. In the M3 of some T. aquitania specimens, the mesostyle is composed of a main anterior cusp and a slightly smaller posterior cusp (see figure 4 in Nicolas et al. 2015, figure 6 in Nicolas et al. 2017). In other specimens, this posterior cusp is not clearly discernible because its posterior border is fused to the crest that runs from the mesostyle to the metacone of M3. Despite interindividual variability, the mesostyle condition of M2 and M3 of T. aquitania specimens differs from that found in T. europaea and T. occidentalis .</p><p>Jessica Martínez-Vargas: Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d‘Ecologia, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain</p><p>Base composition of 16 positions of the cytochrome b gene differ between Talpa aquitania and the two other species (based on 216 specimens of Talpa europaea, 118 specimens of T. aquitania and 26 specimens of Talpa occidentalis; Nicolas et al. 2017). Base composition at positions 87, 171, 176, 282, 309, 328, 351, 369, 465, 492, 745, 813, 828, 981, 1047 and 1074 is C, G, C, G, T, T, A, A, T, C, T, G, C, A, T, T in T. aquitania, and it is A, A, T, A, C, A, G, G, C, T, C, A, T, T, C, C in both T. europaea and T. occidentalis .</p><p>Talpa aquitania is present in France southward and westward of the Loire River, and in Northern Spain.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9277E704FFFBFFCA853B98D232322A4B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nicolas, Violaine;Martínez-Vargas, Jessica;Hugot, Jean-Pierre	Nicolas, Violaine, Martínez-Vargas, Jessica, Hugot, Jean-Pierre (2017): Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain. Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 81 (6): 641-642, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2017-0057, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0057
