Spalax Güldenstadt 1770 (blind mole)
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Synonym: Glis Erxleben 1777 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Spalacinae according to S. J. Steppan et al. 2004
See also de Bruijn et al. 1970, Illiger 1811, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1998 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Debruijnia, Pliospalax, Vetusspalax
Subtaxa: Spalax microphthalmus Spalax sotirisi
Type: Spalax microphthalmus
Ecology: fossorial herbivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (6 collections), Hungary (11), Israel (6), Romania (10), Turkey (2), Ukraine (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
• MN 13 of Greece (1)
Total: 42 collections including 43 occurrences
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