Spalax giganteus Nehring 1898

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Spalacidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 907-926 : 907

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Spalax giganteus Nehring 1898
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Spalax giganteus Nehring 1898 View in CoL

Spalax giganteus Nehring 1898 View in CoL , Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 169.

Type Locality: Russia, Daghestan, W shore of Caspian Sea, near Makhachkala (see Topachevskii, 1969).

Vernacular Names: Giant Blind Mole Rat.

Distribution: Steppes north of the Caucuses and west of the Caspian Sea ( Puzachenko, 1993). Distribution summarized by other researchers includes the Kazakhstan S. uralensis ( Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977 b).

Conservation: IUCN - Vulnerable.

Discussion: Once included in S. microphthalmus ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951) , but revised by Topachevskii (1969) as a separate species and listed as such by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987, 1998) and Pavlinov et al. (1995 a). Geographic range is parapatric with that of S. microphthalmus ( Corbet, 1978 c) . The taxon uralensis has usually been included in S. giganteus (e. g., Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977 b), but analyses of cranial dimensions and proportions indicated significant differences between populations from west of the Caspian Sea ( giganteus ) and the isolated segment in Kazakhstan ( uralensis ) and prompted the recognition of uralensis as a species ( Puzachenko, 1993), an arrangement anticipated by Topachevskii (1969) and accepted by Pavlinov et al. (1995 a) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1998). Chromosomal traits (2n = 64, FN = 124) documented by Lyapunova et al. (1974). Reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995, Russian segment).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Spalacidae

Genus

Spalax

Loc

Spalax giganteus Nehring 1898

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Spalax giganteus

Nehring 1898: 169
1898
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