Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Alternative combination: Talpa europea
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Talpa according to T. L. Yates and D. J. Schmidly 1975
See also Boule and De Villeneuve 1927, Cailleux et al. 2024, Hay 1930, Kurten 1968, Linnaeus 1758 and Thomas 1911
Sister taxa: Talpa caeca, Talpa episcopalis, Talpa fossilis, Talpa gilothi, Talpa gracilis, Talpa minor, Talpa minuta, Talpa neagui, Talpa praeglacialis, Talpa romana, Talpa tenuidentata, Talpa tyrrhenica, Talpa vallesensis
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), the Czech Republic (1), France (11), Germany (10), Hungary (2), Italy (13), Monaco (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
Total: 46 collections including 47 occurrences
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