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    The family Talpidae (/ˈtælpɪdiː/) includes the moles (some of whom are called shrew moles and desmans) who are small insectivorous mammals of the order...
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    Mole (animal) (category Talpidae)
    adapted for digging. The word "mole" refers to any species in the family Talpidae, from the Latin word for mole, talpa. Moles are found in most parts of...
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    Desman (category Talpidae)
    Desmanini (also considered a subfamily, Desmaninae) in the mole family, Talpidae. This tribe consists of two extant monotypic genera of semiaquatic insectivores...
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    Scalopinae (category Talpidae)
    Scalopinae, or New World moles, are one of three subfamilies of the family Talpidae, which consists of moles and mole-like animals; the other two subfamilies...
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    (family Solenodontidae), the desmans, moles, and shrew-like moles (family Talpidae) and true shrews (family Soricidae). True shrews, talpids and solenodons...
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    remainder (termed Soricomorpha), comprising the families Soricidae (shrews), Talpidae (moles), Solenodontidae, and Nesophontidae. These two orders then replaced...
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    and as such they are taxonomically distinct from the true moles, family Talpidae, and other mole-like families, all of which, to various degrees, they resemble...
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  • shrew mole (Uropsilus dabieshanensis) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae and genus Uropsilus. It is endemic to Anhui Province in China, where, as...
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    the subfamily Uropsilinae, which is one of the three main subfamilies of Talpidae, the other two being Talpinae, or Old World moles and relatives; and the...
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    Talpa is a genus in the mole family Talpidae. Among the first taxa in science, Carolus Linnaeus used the Latin word for "mole", talpa, in his Regnum Animale...
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    Condylura (category Talpidae)
    recent studies suggest that it occupies a much more basal position in Talpidae, being sister to a clade comprising the fossil genus Geotrypus, all living...
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  • (2023). "A new shrew mole species of the genus Uropsilus (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae) from northwestern Vietnam". Zootaxa. 5339 (1): 59–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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    Scapanus is a genus of moles in the family Talpidae. They live in North America from west of the Rockies south to Baja California del Norte, and north...
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    The insular mole (Mogera insularis) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is restricted to Hainan Island and Taiwan, where it is also known as...
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    (Euroscaptor micrurus) or short-tailed mole is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. The Malaysian mole (E. malayanus) of peninsular Malaysia was sometimes...
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    own genus, Veratalpa, by Florentino Ameghino in 1905. He placed it in Talpidae, the family of the moles, but in 1974, John Howard Hutchison argued that...
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    Talpidae Species Common name Distribution Status Image Scalopus aquaticus Eastern mole Documented in the eastern two-thirds of the state, eastern areas...
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  • This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Denmark, listing only species found outside captivity and fenced enclosures, or with certain records younger...
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  • shrew mole (Uropsilus aequodonenia) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Sichuan, China. It is characterized by having nine teeth...
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    Talpinae (category Talpidae)
    World moles and relatives", is one of three subfamilies of the mole family Talpidae, the others being the Scalopinae, or New World moles, and the Uropsilinae...
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  • Fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) LC Long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis) LC Northern long-eared myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) NT California myotis (Myotis...
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    List of talpids (category Talpidae)
    Talpidae is one of the four families of small mammals in the order Eulipotyphla. A member of this family is called a talpid and the family includes moles...
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    Family: Talpidae...
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    This list of mammals of South Dakota includes species native to the U.S. state of South Dakota. Three species that are extirpated from the state are the...
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    shrews) Subfamily Myosoricinae: (African white-toothed shrews) Family Talpidae: (moles and close relatives) Subfamily Scalopinae (New World moles and...
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  • This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of...
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    or ringdove Woone One Wont Mole, small burrowing mammal of the family Talpidae Woppen Big, heavy Wopsy or Wops Wasp Wordle World Wurse Devil, arch-fiend...
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    There are 84 mammal species (with two uncertain) recorded in Sweden according to the IUCN Red List. Two are endangered, one is vulnerable as well now extinct...
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    monophyletic; Soricomorpha is paraphyletic because both Soricidae and Talpidae share a more recent common ancestor with Erinaceidae than with solenodons...
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  • shrew moles, genus Uropsilus Milne-Edwards, 1871 (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Talpidae), from the Wuyi Mountains, Jiangxi Province, eastern China". ZooKeys (1186):...
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