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Urotrichus (greater Japanese shrew-mole)

Mammalia - Talpidae

Taxonomy
Urotrichus was named by Temminck (1841). It is extant.

It was assigned to Talpidae by Carroll (1988); and to Urotrichini by Van Valen (1967) and Wilson and Reeder (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Urotrichus Temminck
1967Urotrichus Van Valen
1988Urotrichus Carroll
2005Urotrichus Wilson and Reeder

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Eulipotyphla
suborderSoricomorphaGregory 1910
infraorderSoricotaKalandadze and Rautian 1992
superfamilyTalpoideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyTalpidae(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
subfamilyTalpinaeFisher von Waldheim 1817
tribeUrotrichiniDobson 1883
genusUrotrichusTemminck 1841

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. Urotrichus Temminck 1841 [greater Japanese shrew-mole]
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†Urotrichus dolichochir Gaillard 1899
†Urotrichus giganteus Ziegler 2006
Urotrichus talpoides Temminck 1841 [Japanese shrew mole]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available