- The
family Talpidae (/ˈtælpɪdiː/)
includes the
moles (some of whom are
called shrew moles and desmans) who are
small insectivorous mammals of the order...
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adapted for digging. The word "mole"
refers to any
species in the
family Talpidae, from the
Latin word for mole, talpa.
Moles are
found in most
parts of...
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remainder (termed Soricomorpha),
comprising the
families Soricidae (shrews),
Talpidae (moles), Solenodontidae, and Nesophontidae.
These two
orders then replaced...
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Desmanini (also
considered a subfamily, Desmaninae) in the mole family,
Talpidae. This
tribe consists of two
extant monotypic genera of
semiaquatic insectivores...
- (family Solenodontidae), the desmans, moles, and shrew-like
moles (family
Talpidae) and true
shrews (family Soricidae). True shrews,
talpids and solenodons...
- the
subfamily Uropsilinae,
which is one of the
three main
subfamilies of
Talpidae, the
other two
being Talpinae, or Old
World moles and relatives; and the...
- and as such they are
taxonomically distinct from the true moles,
family Talpidae, and
other mole-like families, all of which, to
various degrees, they resemble...
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Talpa is a
genus in the mole
family Talpidae.
Among the
first taxa in science,
Carolus Linnaeus used the
Latin word for "mole", talpa, in his
Regnum Animale...
- (2023). "A new
shrew mole
species of the
genus Uropsilus (Eulipotyphla:
Talpidae) from
northwestern Vietnam". Zootaxa. 5339 (1): 59–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
- own genus, Veratalpa, by
Florentino Ameghino in 1905. He
placed it in
Talpidae, the
family of the moles, but in 1974, John
Howard Hutchison argued that...