Talpinae Fischer von Waldheim, 1817

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 124

Subfamily Talpinae Fischer von Waldheim, 1817 . Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat., Moscow, 5:372.

SYNONYMS: Condylurinae, Scalopinae, Urotrichinae.

COMMENTS: Includes Condylurini , Scalopini , Scaptonychini , Urotrichini and Talpini as tribes; see Hutchison (1968) and Storch and Qiu (1983). Some of these are sometimes regarded as subfamilies; see comments under family. Generic and specific limits are highly controversial, particularly in the Talpa group. No data-based consensus has yet been reached on the taxonomy of many Palearctic and East Asiatic moles.