- The
family Talpidae (/ˈtælpɪdiː/)
includes the true
moles (as well as the
shrew moles and desmans) who are
small insectivorous mammals of the
order Eulipotyphla...
- digging. The word "mole" most
commonly refers to many
species in the
family Talpidae (which are
named after the
Latin word for mole, talpa). True
moles are...
-
Desmanini (also
considered a subfamily, Desmaninae) in the mole family,
Talpidae. This
tribe consists of two
living species found in Europe: the Russian...
- the
Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures);
Solenodontidae (solenodons);
Talpidae (moles, shrew-like
moles and desmans); and
Soricidae (true shrews) families...
- 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...
-
remainder (termed Soricomorpha),
comprising the
families Soricidae (shrews),
Talpidae (moles), Solenodontidae, and Nesophontidae.
These two
orders then replaced...
- 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...
- The
Levant mole (Talpa levantis) is a
species of
mammal in the
family Talpidae. The
Levant mole was
first described as a
subspecies of
Talpa caeca by Oldfield...
- This list of
mammals of
South Dakota includes species native to the U.S.
state of
South Dakota.
Three species that are
extirpated from the
state are the...
