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Scapanus
Temporal range: 13.6–0 Ma
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Mid Miocene-Recent
Broad-footed mole (Scapanus latimanus)
Scientific classification
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:
Mexican mole (S. anthonyi)[2]
Northern broad-footed mole (S. latimanus)
Southern broad-footed mole (S. occultus)[3]
Coast mole (S. orarius)
Townsend's mole (S. townsendii)
In addition, there are several extinct species known from fossils.
Scapanus proceridens (Miocene, Oregon and Idaho)[6]
Scapanus shultzi (Miocene, California and Oregon)[7]
^Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^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.
^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.
^Hutchison, J. H. (1987). "Late Pliocene (Blancan) Scapanus (Scapanus)(Talpidae: Mammalia) from the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho" (PDF). PaleoBios. 12 (45): 1–7.
^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..
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