Desmanella Engesser 1972 (mole)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae

Parent taxon: Desmaninae according to B. Engesser 1972

See also Cailleux et al. 2024, Carroll 1988, Crochet 1986, Engesser 1980 and van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar 2006

Sister taxa: Galemys, Geomana, Mygalea, Mygalinia, Paratalpa

Subtaxa: Desmanella amasyae Desmanella cingulata Desmanella compacta Desmanella compactus Desmanella crusafonti Desmanella dubia Desmanella engesseri Desmanella fejfari Desmanella gardiolensis Desmanella gudrunae Desmanella quinquecuspidata Desmanella rietscheli Desmanella sickenbergi Desmanella stehlini

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Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of France (3 collections), Greece (4), Spain (1)

• MN 13 of Turkey (2)

• Miocene of Austria (7), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (8), Greece (3), Hungary (2), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Turkey (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (3), Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence

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