Talpini is a tribe of mammals known as Old World moles. It is a division of the subfamily Talpinae.

Talpini
European mole (Talpa europaea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Subfamily: Talpinae
Tribe: Talpini
Fischer, 1814
Genera

Euroscaptor
Mogera
Oreoscaptor
Parascaptor
Scaptochirus
Talpa

This tribe contains the following genera and species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ Mammal Diversity Database (10 August 2021), Mammal Diversity Database (Data set), 1.6, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5175993, retrieved 2021-10-13
  2. ^ Shin-ichiro Kawada; Masatoshi Yasuda; Akio Shinohara; Boo Liat Lim (28 March 2008). "Redescription of the Malaysian Mole as to be a True Species, Euroscaptor malayana (Insectivora, Talpidae)". 国立科博専報 [Mem. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci.] (45). Tokyo: 65–74. S2CID 90029800. Alternate source
  3. ^ Kawada, S-I.; et al. (2012). "A new species of mole of the genus Euroscaptor (Soricomorpha, Talpidae) from northern Vietnam". Journal of Mammalogy. 93 (3): 839–850. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-296.1.
  4. ^ Nicolas, Violaine; Martínez-Vargas, Jessica; Hugot, Jean-Pierre (2017). "Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain" (PDF). Mammalia. 81 (6): 641–642. doi:10.1515/MAMMALIA-2017-0057. S2CID 90926022.

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