Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 (European mole)

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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