Caucasian mole
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Species of mammal
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Talpidae |
| Genus: | Talpa |
| Species: | T. caucasica
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| Binomial name | |
| Talpa caucasica Satunin, 1908
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| Caucasian mole range | |
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The Caucasian mole (Talpa caucasica) is a mammal in the family Talpidae that is endemic to the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and Georgia.[1]
Ognev's mole (T. ognevi) was formerly classified as a subspecies, but is now thought to be a distinct species.[2]
References
- ^ a b Kryštufek, B. (2016). "Talpa caucasica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41480A22321383.
- ^ Bannikova, Anna A.; Zemlemerova, Elena D.; Colangelo, Paolo; Sözen, Mustafa; Sevindik, M.; Kidov, Artem A.; Dzuev, Ruslan I.; Kryštufek, Boris; Lebedev, Vladimir S. (2015-08-18). "An underground burst of diversity - a new look at the phylogeny and taxonomy of the genusTalpaLinnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia: Talpidae) as revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial genes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (4): 930–948. doi:10.1111/zoj.12298. ISSN 0024-4082.
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