Scapanus

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Scapanus
Temporal range: 13.6–0  Ma
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Broad-footed mole (Scapanus latimanus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Tribe: Scalopini
Genus: Scapanus
Pomel, 1848
Type species
Scalops townsendii

Scapanus is a genus of moles in the family Talpidae. [1] They live in North America from west of the Rockies south to Baja California del Norte, and north to British Columbia, wherever conditions permit a mole population; that is to say, apart from the most sandy, rocky, or developed places. As they are one genus, they are very closely related, but as species, they rarely if ever interbreed successfully.

It contains the following living species:

In addition, there are several extinct species known from fossils.

Distribution

Broad-footed mole's are primarily Californian, although its range spills over into neighboring states. The coast mole lives primarily in western Oregon, Washington, and southwestern British Columbia, where it often overlaps the smaller range of Townsend's mole. Townsend's mole is one of the largest and most powerful moles, while the coast mole is quite average-sized.

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  2. ↑ Yates, Terry L.; Jorge Salazar-Bravo (2004). "A Revision Of Scapanus latimanus, with the Revalidation of a Species Of Mexican Mole". In Sánchez-Cordero V.; Medellín R.A. (eds.). Contribuciones Mastozoológicas En Homenaje A Bernardo Villa (PDF). Instituto De Biología e Ins Tituto De Ecología, Unam, México. pp. 479–496.
  3. ↑ Castañeda, Sergio Ticul Alvarez; Cortés-Calva, Patrica (2021-05-09). "Revision of moles in the genus Scapanus". THERYA. 12 (2): 275. doi: 10.12933/therya-21-1174 . ISSN   2007-3364.
  4. ↑ Hutchison, J. H. (1987). "Late Pliocene (Blancan) Scapanus (Scapanus)(Talpidae: Mammalia) from the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho" (PDF). PaleoBios. 12 (45): 1–7.
  5. ↑ Hutchison, J. H. "Moles of the Scapanus latimanus group (Talpidae, Insectivora) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of California". Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 386: 1–15..
  6. ↑ "Scapanus proceridens Hutchison 1968 (mole)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Scapanus shultz Tedford 1961". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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