Talpa streeti

D. M. Lay, 1965

Street's Mole

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lay, D.M. 1965-10-22. A new species of mole (genus Talpa) from Kurdistan Province, western Iran. Fieldiana Zoology 44(24):227-230.

Original name as described

Talpa streeti

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:96424

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Hezer Darrak, Kurdistan Province, north-western Iran (35x25'N, 47x07'E).

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Iran

Taxonomy notes

split from T. davidiana; the original spelling of this name was 'streeti', but was emmended to 'streetorum' in a later publication, although this later emmendation was unjustified and the original spelling is used here

Taxonomy notes citation

Gündüz, İ., Demirtaş, S., Silsüpür, M., Özmen, M., Polly, P. D., & Bilton, D. T. (2023). Notes from the Anatolian underground: two new mole taxa from Eastern Turkey, together with a revised phylogeny of the genus Talpa (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 199(3), 567-593.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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