Nannospalax ehrenbergi

Nannospalax ehrenbergi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Spalacidae
Subfamilia: Spalacinae
Genus: Nannospalax
Species: Nannospalax ehrenbergi

Name

Nannospalax ehrenbergi (Nehring, 1897)

• Syntypes (n=6): ZMB 15203, 15205, 15207, 15208, 15210, 15212 (bodies in alcohol), 15202, 15204, 15206, 15209, 15211 (skulls).
• Type locality: “Palästina, und zwar aus der Umgebung von Jaffa”.

Combinations

• Spalax ehrenbergi Nehring, 1897: 178 [original combination]

References

Primary references

• Nehring, A. 1897. Mehrere neue Spalax-Arten. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 10: 163–183. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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. 

Vernacular names

English: Middle East Blind Mole-rat