Euroscaptor parvidens

(G. S. Miller, 1940)

Small-toothed Mole

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Talpidae
Subfamily : Talpinae
Tribe : Talpini
Genus : Euroscaptor

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Miller, G.S., Jr. 1940-05-14. A new mole from Annam. Journal of Mammalogy 21(2):203-204.

Authority publication link

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1374977

Original name as described

Talpa parvidens

Type material

USNM:MAMM:258342

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"agricultural station Blao, ‘Délégation de Djynrinh', near the upper Donai River, Annam, French Indo China [= Di Linh, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam]."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

previously included the recently described E. ngoclinhensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Zemlemerova, E. D., Bannikova, A. A., Lebedev, V. S., Rozhnov, V. V., & Abramov, A. V. (2016). Secrets of the underground Vietnam: an underestimated species diversity of Asian moles (Lipotyphla: Talpidae: Euroscaptor). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 320(2), 193-220. · Hai, B. T., Motokawa, M., Kawada, S. I., Abramov, A. V., & Son, N. T. (2020). Skull Variation in Asian Moles of the Genus Euroscaptor (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae) in Vietnam. Mammal Study, 45(4), 1-16.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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