Spalax

Spalax microphthalmus

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: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Cladus: Boreosphenida 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: Spalax
Species (8 + †6): †S. advenus – S. antiquus – S. arenarius – †S. chalkidikae – †S. denizliensis – S. giganteus – S. graecus – S. istricus – S. microphthalmus – †S. minor – †S. minutus – †S. odessanus – S. uralensis – S. zemni

Name

Spalax Güldenstädt, 1770: 410

• Type species: Spalax microphthalmus Güldenstädt, 1770, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Güldenstädt, J.A. 1770. Spalax novuum glirium genus. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 14(1): 409–440. 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. 
• Németh, A., Homonnay, Z.G., Krízsik, V., Csorba, M., Pavlíček, T., Hegyeli, Z., Hadid, Y., Sugár, S., Farkas, J. & Csorba, G. 2013. Old views and new insights: taxonomic revision of the Bukovina blind mole rat, Spalax graecus (Rodentia: Spalacinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169(4): 903–914. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12081 Reference page. 
• Chişamera, G., Bužan, E.V., Sahlean, T., Murariu, D., Zupan, S. & Kryštufek, B. 2013. Bukovina blind mole rat Spalax graecus revisited: phylogenetics, morphology, taxonomy, habitatassociations and conservation. Mammal Review 44(1): 19–29. DOI: 10.1111/mam.12001 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. 
• Erten, H. 2018. Spalax denizliensis sp. nov. (Spalacidae, Rodentia) from an Early Pleistocene-aged locality in the Denizli Basin (southwestern Turkey). Turkish Journal of Zoology 42(1): 62-67. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names

čeština: Slepec
English: Blind Mole-rats
українська: Сліпак

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