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Taxonomy
Desmana was named by Guldenstaedt (1777). It is extant.
It was assigned to Desmaninae by Van Valen (1967); and to Talpidae by Kurten (1968) and Carroll (1988).
It was assigned to Desmaninae by Van Valen (1967); and to Talpidae by Kurten (1968) and Carroll (1988).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1777 | Desmana Guldenstaedt |
| 1799 | Desman Lacepede |
| 1800 | Mygale Cuvier pp. table 1 |
| 1815 | Desmanus Rafinesque |
| 1825 | Mygale Gray p. 339 |
| 1829 | Myogalea Fischer |
| 1830 | Caprios Wagler |
| 1836 | Myogale Brandt p. 176 |
| 1846 | Palaeospalax Owen |
| 1953 | Desmagale Kretzoi |
| 1967 | Desmagale Van Valen |
| 1967 | Desmana Van Valen |
| 1968 | Desmana Kurten p. 48 |
| 1988 | Desmana Carroll |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Desmana Guldenstaedt 1777 [Russian desman]
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†Desmana inflata Rümke 1985
†Desmana kowalskae Rümke 1985
Desmana moschata Linnaeus 1758 [Russian desman]
†Desmana nehringi Kormos 1913
†Desmana pyrenaica Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1811
†Desmana thermalis Kormos 1930
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Invalid names: Desmagale pannonica Kretzoi 1953 [synonym], Desmana crassidens Kretzoi 1953 [synonym], Desmana tegelensis Schreuder 1940 [synonym]
†Desmana verestchagini Topachevski 1961
†Desmana verestchagini amutriensis Radulescu et al. 1989
Invalid names: Caprios Wagler 1830 [synonym], Desmagale Kretzoi 1953 [synonym], Desman Lacepede 1799 [synonym], Desmanus Rafinesque 1815 [synonym], Mygale Cuvier 1800 [synonym], Myogale Brandt 1836 [synonym], Myogalea Fischer 1829 [synonym], Palaeospalax Owen 1846 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Gingerich 2003 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 11 to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 8.70000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 7.75 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 7.75 Ma
Collections (61 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| MN 11 | Austria (Niederoesterreich) | Desmana sp. (32649) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | China (Nei Mongol) | Desmana sp. (75300) | |
| Ruscinian | Greece | Desmana sp. (31229) | |
| Ruscinian | Romania | Desmana sp. (40796) | |
| Ruscinian | Greece (Macedonia) | Desmana sp. (35086) Desmana verestchagini (35087) | |
| Pliocene | Russian Federation | Desmana sp. (34110) | |
| Pliocene | Spain (Albacete) | Desmana nehringi (41931 41932 41933 41937) | |
| Pliocene | Romania (Oltenia) | Desmana verestchagini (39425) | |
| Pliocene | Russian Federation (Rostovskaya Oblast') | Desmana sp. (39409) | |
| Ruscinian - Pliocene | Greece | Desmana sp. (31931) | |
| Ruscinian - Villanyian | Hungary (Barany) | Desmana sp. (35354) | |
| MN 14 | Poland | Desmana nehringi (32240) | |
| MN 15 | Poland | Desmana nehringi (33396) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Romania (Wallachia Region) | Desmana nehringi (36000 36004) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) | Desmana nehringi, Desmana thermalis (199747) | |
| MN 16 | Poland | Desmana nehringi (33473) | |
| Villanyian | Hungary (Barany) | Desmana nehringi (35368 35369 35371) | |
| Villanyian | Hungary (Borsodabaujzemplen) | Desmana sp. (35358 35370) | |
| Villanyian | Hungary (Fejer) | Desmana crassidens, Desmagale pannonica (35374) | |
| Villanyian | Spain (Castellon) | Desmana sp. (34929) | |
| Villanyian | Slovakia | Desmana nehringi (41026) | |
| MN 17 | Netherlands (Limburg) | Desmana thermalis (68018) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) | Desmana moschata (35905 50000) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Hungary | Desmana sp. (39797) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Ukraine | Desmana sp. (41031) Desmana thermalis (41049) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Poland | Desmana sp. (33480) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | Desmana sp. (35427) Desmana thermalis (35457) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Hungary (Borsodabaujzemplen) | Desmana sp. (35431) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Russian Federation (Krasnodar. Kray) | Desmana sp. (41059) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Romania (Wallachia region) | Desmana nehringi (36008) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Romania (Oltenia) | Desmana nehringi (39422) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Netherlands | Desmana sp., Desmana termalis (189574) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Granada) | Desmana sp. (34898) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Romania | Desmana sp. (33975) Desmana thermalis (32145 32195 71662) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Germany (Sachsen) | Desmana thermalis (36213) | |
| Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Myogale moschata (77749) | |
| Pleistocene | Germany (Weisbaden) | Desmana moschata (34400) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Austria (Niederoesterreich) | Desmana thermalis (50258) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Netherlands | Desmana thermalis (109704) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) | Desmana moschata (50196) Desmana sp. (49999) Desmana thermalis (50198) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Norfolk) | Desmana moschata (49816) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) | Desmana thermalis (36206) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Czech Republic | Desmana thermalis (36219) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Hungary (Budapest) | Desmana thermalis (35474) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Romania | Desmana moschata (40260) |