Nannospalax

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Spalacidae
Subfamilia: Spalacinae
Genus: Nannospalax
Species (12): N. bulgaricus – N. ehrenbergi – N. hellenicus – N. hungaricus – N. insularis – N. leucodon – N. montanoserbicus – N. montanosyrmiensis – N. monticola – N. serbicus – N. turcicus – N. xanthodon

Name

Nannospalax Palmer, 1903: 873

• Type species: Spalax kirgisorum Nehring, 1898, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Palmer, T.S. 1903. Some new generic names of mammals. Science 17(439): 873. DOI: 10.1126/science.17.439.873.a ; BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Németh, A., Révay, T., Hegyeli, Z., Farkas, J,, Czabán, D., Rózsás, A. & Csorba, G. 2009. Chromosomal forms and risk assessment of Nannospalax (superspecies leucodon)(Mammalia: Rodentia) in the Carpathian Basin. Folia Zoologica 58(3): 349–361. PDF Reference page. 
• Hadid, Y., Németh, A., Snir, S., Pavlíček, T., Csorba, G., Kázmér, M., Major, Á., Mezhzherin, S., Rusin, M., Coşkun, Y. & Nevo, E. 2012. Is evolution of blind mole rats determined by climate oscillations? PLoS ONE 7: e30043. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030043 Reference page. 
• Kryštufek, B., Ivanitskaya, E., Arslan, A., Arslan, E. & Bužan, E.V. 2012. Evolutionary history of mole rats (genus Nannospalax) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105(2): 446–455. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01795.x Reference page. 
• Arslan, A., Kryštufek, B., Matur, F. & Zima, J. 2016. Review of chromosome races in blind mole rats (Spalax and Nannospalax). Folia Zoologica 65(4): 249–301. DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v65.i4.a1.2016 Reference page. 
• Németh, A., Mizsei, E., Laczkó, L., Czabán, D., Hegyeli, Z., Lengyel, S., Csorba, G. & Sramkó, G. 2024. Evolutionary history and systematics of European blind mole rats (Rodentia: Spalacidae: Nannospalax): Multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in a puzzling group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 190: 107958. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107958 Reference page.