Talpa

Familia: Talpidae
Subfamilia: Talpinae
Tribus: Talpini
Genus:
Species (15 + †1): T. altaica – T. aquitania – T. caeca – T. caucasica – T. davidiana – T. europaea – T. hakkariensis – T. levantis – T. martinorum – T. occidentalis – T. ognevi – T. romana – T. stankovici – T. streeti – T. talyschensis – T. transcaucasica – †T. fossilis

Talpa Linnaeus, 1758: 52 [conserved name]

• Type species: Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758, designated by Linnaean tautonymy.
• Gender: feminine
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 75 (1922: 37).

• Asioscalops Stroganov, 1941: 271
  • Type species: Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883, by original designation.
• Asioscaptor Schwarz, 1948: 36
  • Type species: Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883, by original designation.

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1922. Opinion 75. Twenty-seven generic names of Protozoa, Vermes, Pisces, Reptilia and Mammalia included in the Official List of Zoological Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(1): 35–37. BHL Reference page. 

• Filippucci, M.G., Nascetti, G., Capanna, E. & Bullini, L. 1987. Allozyme Variation and Systematics of European Moles of the Genus Talpa (Mammalia, Insectivora). Journal of Mammalogy 68(3): 487–499. DOI: 10.2307/1381585 Reference page. 
• Hutterer, R. 2005. Order Soricomorpha. Pp. 220–311 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Colangelo, P., Bannikova, A.A., Kryštufek, B., Lebedev, V., Annesi, F., Loy, A. & Capanna, E. 2010. Molecular Systematic and evolutionary biogeography of the genus Talpa (Soricomorpha: Talpidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(2): 372–380. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.038 Reference page. 
• Bannikova, A.A., Zemlemerova, E.D., Colangelo, P., Sözen, M., Sevindik, M., Kidov, A.A., Dzuev, R.I., Kryštufek, B. & Lebedev, V.S. 2015. An underground burst of diversity – a new look at the phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Talpa Linnaeus, 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 Reference page. 
• Nicolas, V., Martínez-Vargas, J. & Hugot, J.-P. 2017. Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain. Mammalia 81(6): 641–642. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2017-0057 Reference page. 
• Kryštufek, B., Nedyalkov, N., Astrin, J.J. & Hutterer, R. 2018. News from the Balkan refugium: Thrace has an endemic mole species (Mammalia: Talpidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 67(1): 41–57. PDF Reference page. 
• Demırtaş, S., Silsüpür, M., Searle, J.B., Bilton, D. & Gündüz, I. 2020. What should we call the Levant mole? Unravelling the systematics and demography of Talpa levantis Thomas, 1906 sensu lato (Mammalia: Talpidae). Mammalian Biology 100: 1–18. DOI: 10.1007/s42991-020-00010-4 Reference page. 
• Kefelioğlu, H., Kryštufek, B., Selçuk, A.Y., Hutterer, R. & Astrin, J.J. 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Levant moles of Turkey (Mammalia: Talpidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 69(2): 275–291. DOI: 10.20363/BZB-2020.69.2.275 Reference page. 
• Gündüz, İ,, Demirtaş, S., Silsüpür, M., Özmen, M., Polly, P.D. & Bilton, D.T. 2023. Notes from the Anatolian underground: two new mole taxa from Eastern Turkey, together with a revised phylogeny of the genus Talpa (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(3): 567-593. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad049 Reference page. 

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