Talpa altaica Nikolsky 1883

Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883. Trans. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg, 14:165. TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Altai Mtns, Valley of Tourak. DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of Siberia between Ob and Lena rivers; south to N Mongolia. COMMENTS: Placed by Yudin (1989:52) in genus Asioscalops; but see Corbet (1978c:33). Krato...

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Main Author: Rainer Hutterer
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Talpidae
Talpa
Talpa altaica
taiga
Siberia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292843
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Summary:Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883. Trans. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg, 14:165. TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Altai Mtns, Valley of Tourak. DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of Siberia between Ob and Lena rivers; south to N Mongolia. COMMENTS: Placed by Yudin (1989:52) in genus Asioscalops; but see Corbet (1978c:33). Kratochvll and Krâl (1972) provided karyological evidence for a separation of altaica from the remaining Talpa species. Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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