Ellobius talpinus

(Pallas, 1770)

Northern Mole Vole

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Arvicolinae
Tribe : Ellobiusini
Genus : Ellobius

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1770. Descriptiones quadrupedum et avium anno 1769. observatarum. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 14(1):548-592.

Original name as described

Mus talpinus

Type locality

between Kuibyshev (= Samara) and Kostytchi, W bank of Volga River, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Ukraine · Mongolia · China · Russia · Kazakhstan · Turkmenistan · Uzbekistan · Iran · Afghanistan

Taxonomy notes

E. talpinus likely represents a species complex of at least three species, talpinus, rufescens, and orientalis, all three of which are tentatively included under a single species pending further resolution

Taxonomy notes citation

Lebedev, V., Bogdanov, A., Brandler, O., Melnikova, M., Enkhbat, U., Tukhbatullin, A., ... & Bannikova, A. (2020). Cryptic variation in mole voles Ellobius (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) of Mongolia. Zoologica Scripta, 49(5), 535-548. · Kryštufek, B., & Shenbrot, G. (2022). Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region. University of Maribor Press, Maribor.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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