Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Synonym: Myogalina Mivart 1871
Parent taxon: Talpidae according to E. Martín-Suárez et al. 2001
See also Mors et al. 2000 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Anomodon, Asthenoscapter, Chrysochlorina, Desmana, Desmanodon, Domninoides, Entomodon, Eotalpa, Galeospalax, Geolabis, Hugueneya, Hyporyssus, Mioscalops, Mogera, Mongolopala, Neurotrichus, Oreotalpa, Parascalops, Parascaptor, Proscalopinae, Quadrodens, Scalopinae, Scaptochirus, Scaptogale, Soricina, Suleimaninae, Talpa, Talpina, Talpinae, Tegulariscaptor, Tenrecina, Tupaina, Uropsilinae
Subtaxa: Desmanella Galemys Geomana Mygalea Mygalinia Paratalpa
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), the Netherlands (2), Portugal (1), Spain (2), Türkiye (1)
• MN 16 of Austria (1), France (1), Poland (2)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of France (4), Germany (2), Greece (3), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), Spain (1), Türkiye (4), Ukraine (1)
• MN 13 of Türkiye (2)
• Turolian of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (7), China (1), Czechia (1), France (3), Germany (20), Greece (2), Hungary (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (4), Türkiye (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), France (4), Germany (6), Kazakhstan (2), Spain (1)
Total: 101 collections including 110 occurrences