Mogera kanoana

Kawada, Shinohara, Kobayashi, Harada, Oda, & Lin Liangkong, 2007

Kano's Mole

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Kawada, S.-I., Shinohara, A., Kobayashi, S., Harada, M., Oda, S.-I. and Lin, L.-K. 2007-05. Revision of the mole genus Mogera (Mammalia: Lipotyphla: Talpidae) from Taiwan. Systematics and Biodiversity 5(2):223-240.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477200006002271

Original name as described

Mogera kanoana

Type material

NMNS 009312

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Tatachia, Yushan National Park, Nantou Province, Taiwan.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Taiwan

Taxonomy notes

recently described; it also is used as a replacement name for montana Kishida, 1932 and Kano, 1940 (previously a synonym of M. insularis), which both nomen nuda and preoccupied by montana Cabrera, 1925

Taxonomy notes citation

Kawada, S. I., Shinohara, A., Kobayashi, S., Harada, M., Oda, S. I., & Lin, L. K. (2007). Revision of the mole genus Mogera (Mammalia: Lipotyphla: Talpidae) from Taiwan. Systematics and Biodiversity, 5(2), 223-240. · Yasuda, M., & Kawada, S. I. (2007). Notes on the validity of Mogera montana Kishida, 1932, for a mountain mole from Taiwan. Mammal study, 32(4), 169-172.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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