Nannospalax
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Spalacidae
Subfamilia: Spalacinae
Genus: Nannospalax
Subgenera (2):
N. (Mesospalax) –
N. (Nannospalax)
Species (39):
N. abiissent –
N. anatolicus –
N. artus –
N. bulgaricus –
N. ceyhanus –
N. cilicicus –
N. colaki –
N. ehrenbergi –
N. elfani –
N. flavus –
N. garzanensis –
N. gazii –
N. guleki –
N. hellenicus –
N. hungaricus –
N. inspirata –
N. insularis –
N. intermedius –
N. irenaeus –
N. karatasi –
N. karyominor –
N. kastamonuensis –
N. kemali –
N. leucodon –
N. medialis –
N. montanoserbicus –
N. montanosyrmiensis –
N. montanus –
N. monticola –
N. munzurii –
N. mursalogluae –
N. nehringi –
N. occidentalis –
N. serbicus –
N. tenebrosus –
N. tuncelicus –
N. turcicus –
N. victoriosus –
N. xanthodon
Name
[edit]- Type species: Spalax ehrenbergi Nehring, 1898
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Palmer, T.S. 1903. Some new generic names of mammals. Science 17(439): 873. DOI: 10.1126/science.17.439.873.a
; BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Németh, A., Révay, T., Hegyeli, Z., Farkas, J,, Czabán, D., Rózsás, A. & Csorba, G. 2009. Chromosomal forms and risk assessment of Nannospalax (superspecies leucodon)(Mammalia: Rodentia) in the Carpathian Basin. Folia Zoologica 58(3): 349–361. PDF Reference page.
- Hadid, Y., Németh, A., Snir, S., Pavlíček, T., Csorba, G., Kázmér, M., Major, Á., Mezhzherin, S., Rusin, M., Coşkun, Y. & Nevo, E. 2012. Is evolution of blind mole rats determined by climate oscillations? PLoS ONE 7: e30043. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030043
Reference page. - 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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01795.x
Reference page. - 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. DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v65.i4.a1.2016
Reference page. - Németh, A., Mizsei, E., Laczkó, L., Czabán, D., Hegyeli, Z., Lengyel, S., Csorba, G. & Sramkó, G. 2024. Evolutionary history and systematics of European blind mole rats (Rodentia: Spalacidae: Nannospalax): Multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in a puzzling group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 190: 107958. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107958
Reference page. - Kankılıç, T., Tatyüz, I., Yürümez, G., Kankılıç, T., Köse, B., Coşkun, Y. & Civelek, I. [2025] 2026. Taxonomic revision of the Nannospalax ehrenbergi species complex (Rodentia: Spalacidae) in Anatolian Peninsula, with description of three new species. Zoologischer Anzeiger 321: 16–37. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2025.12.006
Reference page. - Matur, F., Sözen, M., Çolak, E., Kandemir, İ. & Özkurt, Ş.Ö. 2026. A chromosomal and integrative taxonomic revision of Anatolian blind mole rats (Nannospalax): Elevating cytotypes to species. Animal Taxonomy and Ecology DOI: 10.1556/1777.2026.00131 Reference page.