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Myospalax myospalax
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Myospalax myospalax (Laxmann, 1773). Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 34:134.
TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Altai Krai, 100 km SE of Barnaul, Sommaren, near Paniusheva on Alei River.
DISTRIBUTION: Russia and Kazakhstan (entire N region of Cisaltai plain and foothills as well as the W and C Altai).
SYNONYMS: incertus, komurai, laxmanni, tarbagataicus.
COMMENTS: Member of monophyletic myospalax species-group, which includes living M. epsilanus, M. aspalax, and the Pliocene and Pleistocene M. youngi and M. pseudarmandi (Lawrence, 1991).
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 676, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
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References
- Lawrence, M. A. 1991. A fossil Myospalax cranium (Rodentia: Muridae) from Shanxi, China, with observations on Zokor relationships. Pp. 261 - 286, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432.