Nannospalax ehrenbergi

(Nehring, 1898)

Middle East Blind Mole-rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Spalacidae
Subfamily : Spalacinae
Genus : Nannospalax

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Nehring, A., 1898. Über mehrere neue Spalax Arten. Sitzungsber, d. Gesellsch. Naturforsch., Freunde z. Berlin, 10:151-183.

Original name as described

Spalax ehrenbergi

Other common names

Ehrenberg's Mole-rat · Palestine Mole-rat

Type material

ZMB 15202, ZMB 15203, ZMB 15204, ZMB 15205, ZMB 15206, ZMB 15207, ZMB 15208, ZMB 15209, ZMB 15210, ZMB 15211, ZMB 15212

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Jaffa (= Tel Aviv), Israel.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Libya · Egypt · Israel · Palestine · Jordan · Lebanon · Syria · Turkey · Iraq

Taxonomy notes

moved to Nannospalax from Spalax; includes carmeli, galili, golani, and judaei

Taxonomy notes citation

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. · 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.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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