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Scalopus aquaticus (eastern mole)

Mammalia - Talpidae

Taxonomy
Sorex aquaticus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Scalops aquaticus by Hay (1902); it was misspelled as Scalops aquaticus by Thomas (1911); it was recombined as Scalopus aquaticus by Geoffroy (1803), Sherman (1952), Yates and Schmidly (1975), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Hulbert and Pratt (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Sorex aquaticus Linnaeus p. 53
1803Scalopus aquaticus Geoffroy
1902Scalops aquaticus Hay p. 738
1911Scalops aquaticus Thomas p. 143
1952Scalopus aquaticus Sherman p. 87
1975Scalopus aquaticus Yates and Schmidly p. 902
1980Scalopus aquaticus Kurten and Anderson p. 115
1998Scalopus aquaticus Hulbert, Jr. and Pratt

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
tribeScalopiniDobson 1883
genusScalopusGeoffroy 1803
speciesaquaticus()

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.

Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 [eastern mole]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available