This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
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German
Maulwürfe
scientific
Talpidae
Alternative Name
scientific
Myaladae
Gray, 1821
Ref.: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
S. R. May, 2019 - The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA - Palaeontologia Electronica (), 1-129 (journal article, English)
P. Pelaez-Campomanes, 2019 - Gördes: a new early Miocene micromammal assemblage from western Anatolia - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (99), 639-653 (journal article, English)
G. Sansalone, 2017 - When moles became diggers: Tegulariscaptor gen. nov., from the early Oligocene of south Germany, and the evolution of talpid fossoriality - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (), - (journal article, English)
F. N. Van der Sar, 2017 - Insectivores and marsupials from the upper Oligocene of Banovići (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (37), e1368-17 (journal article, English)
M. Hugueney, 2017 - Evolution of Oligo-Miocene talpids (Mammalia, Talpidae) in Europe: focus on the genera Myxomygale and Percymygale n. gen - Historical Biology (), - (journal article, English)
W. W. Korth, 2016 - Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska - Annals of Carnegie Museum (83), 219-254 (journal article, English)
J. J. Hooker, 2015 - Skeletal adaptations and phylogeny of the oldest mole Eotalpa (Talpidae, Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the UK Eocene: the beginning of fossoriality in moles - Palaeontology (59), 195-216 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2012 - Moles (Talpidae, Mammalia) from Early Oligocene karstic fissure fillings in South Germany - Geobios (45), 501-513 (journal article, English)
J. Prieto, 2010 - The Middle Miocene mole Desmanodon crocheti sp. nov. (Talpidae, Mammalia): the last representative of the genus in the North Alpine foreland basin - Palaeontologische Zeitschrift (84), 217-225 (journal article, English)
J. S. Zijlstra, 2010 - Neurotrichus skoczeni, new name for Neurotrichus minor Skoczen, 1993, preoccupied - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (30), 1903-1903 (journal article, English)
O. G. Bendukidze, 2009 - A revision of Late Oligocene associations of small mammals from the Aral Formation (Kazakhstan) in the National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi - Palaeodiversity (2), 343-377 (journal article, English)
K. J. Lloyd, 2008 - A new talpid from the late Eocene of North America - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (53), 539-543 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2007 - 4. Marsupialia, Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) - Oligocene-Miocene Vertebrates from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia): Morphology, phylogenetic and stratigraphic implications. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (108A), 53-164 (book/book chapter, English)
R. Smith, 2007 - Présence du genre Eotalpa (Mammalia, Talpidae) dans l’Oligocène inférieur de Belgique (Formation de Borgloon, MP 21) - Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre (77), 159-165 (journal article, French)
C. Doukas, 2006 - Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha; Mammalia)from Karydia and Komotini (Thrace, Greece; MN 4/5) - Beiträge zur Paläontologie (30), 109-131 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2006 - Insectivores (Lipotyphla) and bats (Chiroptera) from the Late Miocene of Austria - Annalen Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (107A), 93-196 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2006 - Erinaceidae and Talpidae (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia)from the Lower Miocene of Merkur-Nord (Czech Republic, MN 3) - Beiträge zur Paläontologie (30), 175-203 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2005 - The insectivores (Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominoid locality Rudabánya - Palaeontographia Italica (90), 53-81 (journal article, English)
R. J. Asher, 2005 - New material of Centetodon (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) and the importance of (missing) DNA sequences in systematic paleontology - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (25), 911-923 (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2004 - Early Miocene small mammals from the North Aral region (Kazakhstan) with special reference to their biostratigraphic significance - Paleontological Journal (38), S217-S323 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2003 - Moles (Talpidae) from the late Middle Miocene of South Germany. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (48), 617-648 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2003 - Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Upper Pliocene of Tegelen (province of Limburg, The Netherlands) - Scripta Geologica (126), 203-215 (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2002 - An Oligocene Mole (Talpidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from Mongolia - Paleontological Journal (36), 531-534 (journal article, English)
J. Alroy, 2002 - Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals - (), - (unpublished, English)
E. Martín-Suárez, 2001 - Archaeodesmana baetica, sp. nov. (Mammalia, Insectivora, Talpidae) from the Mio-Pliocene transition of the Granada Basin, southern Spain - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (21), 547-554 (journal article, English)
G. Storch, 2000 - Desmanella rietscheli, ein neuer Talpide aus dem Obermiozän von Dorn-Dürkheim 1, Rheinhessen (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) - Carolinea (58), 65-69 (journal article, German)
T. Mors, 2000 - Die erst Wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen Braunkohle der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach) [The first vertebrate fauna from the Miocene Ville Series of the Lower Rhine Embayment (Hambach open cast mine, western Germany)] - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (74), 145-170 (journal article, German)
Z. Qiu, 2000 - The early Pliocene Micromammalian Fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) - Senckenbergiana lethaea (80), 173-229 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2000 - Marsupialia, Lipotyphla und Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Miozan des Braunkohlentagebaus Hambach (Niederrheinische Bucht, NW-Deutschland) - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (257), 1-26 (journal article, German)
A. V. Lopatin, 1999 - Oligocene and Early Miocene Insectivores (Mammalia) from Western Kazakhstan - Paleontological Journal (33), 182-191 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 1997 - Insectivore faunas from the Lower Miocene of Anatolia. Part 4: The genus Desmanodon (Talpidae) with the description of a new species from the Lower Miocene of Spain. - Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (100), 27-65 (journal article, English)
P. Mein, 1997 - Les mammiferes du gisement miocene inferieure de Li Mae Long, Thailande; Systematique biostratigraphie et paleoenvironment - Geodiversitas (19), 783-844 (journal article, French)
W. W. Dalquest, 1996 - Fossil mammals from a late Miocene (Clarendonian) site in Beaver County, Oklahoma - Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas (5), 107-137 (journal article, English)
R. Hutterer, 1995 - Archaeodesmana Topachevski & Paskov, the correct name for Dibolia Rümke, a genus of fossil water moles (Mammalia: Talpidae). - Bonner Zoologische Beiträge (45), 171-172 (journal article, English)
J.-Y. Crochet, 1995 - Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocene, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertebres. 4. Marsupiaux et insectivores. - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (236), 39-75 (journal article, French)
W. W. Korth, 1994 - Middle Tertiary marsupials (Mammalia) from North America - Journal of Paleontology (68), 376-397 (journal article, English)
S. Skoczen, 1993 - New records of Parascalops, Neurotrichus and Condylura (Talpinae, Insectivora) from the Pliocene of Poland. - Acta Theriologica (38), 125-137 (journal article, English)
D. E. Wilson, 1993 - - Mammal species of the world (), 1-1206 (book, English)
G. Storch, 1991 - Insectivores (Mammalia: Erinaceidae, Soricidae, Talpidae) from the Lufeng hominoid locality, Late Miocene of China - Geobios (24), 601-621 (journal article, English)
M. R. Voorhies, 1990 - Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska - Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains (), 115-151 (book/book chapter, English)
R. Ziegler, 1990 - Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) aus dem Oberoligozän und Untermiozän Süddeutschlands - Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (167), 1-81 (serial monograph, German)
C. Radulescu, 1989 - Pliocene (Lower Romanian) micromammals in the Dacic Basin. - Miscellanea Speologica Romanica (1), 313-326 (journal article, English)
C. Radulescu, 1989 - Contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian faunas from Malusteni and Beresti (Romania). Order Insectivora, family Talpidae - Miscellanea Speologica Romanica (1), 303-311 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 1989 - The Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) of Eggingen-Mittelhart (Baden-Württemberg, F.R.G.) with special reference to the Paratalpa-Desmanodon lineage. - Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, serie B (152), 1-29 (journal article, English)
R. L. Carroll, 1988 - - Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (), 1-698 (compendium, English)
J. H. Hutchison, 1987 - Scapanus from California - Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (386), 1-15 (journal article, English)
J. H. Hutchison, 1987 - Late Pliocene (Blancan) Scapanus (Scapanus) (Talpidae: Mammalia) from the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho - PaleoBios (12), 1-7 (journal article, English)
R. H. Tedford, 1987 - Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America - Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy (), 153-210 (book/book chapter, English)
J.-Y. Crochet, 1986 - Insectivores pliocènes du sud de la France (Languedoc-Roussillon) et du nord-est de l'Espagne. - Palaeovertebrata (16), 145-171 (journal article, French)
R. Ziegler, 1985 - Talpiden (Mammalia, Insectivora) aus dem Orleanium and Astaracium Bayerns. - Mitteilungen der Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie (25), 131-175 (journal article, German)
C. G. Rümke, 1985 - A review of fossil and recent Desmaninae (Talpidae, Insectivora) - Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins (4), 1-241 (journal article, English)
G. Storch, 1983 - The Neogene mammalian faunas of Ertemte and Harr Obo in Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol), China. – 2. Moles – Insectivora: Talpidae. - Senckenbergiana lethaea (64), 89-127 (journal article, English)
E. R. Hall, 1981 - - The Mammals of North America (), 1-1181 (book, English)
B. Kurten, 1980 - - Pleistocene mammals of North America (), 1-442 (book, English)
T. M. Brown, 1980 - The fossil lnsectivora of Lemoyne Quarry (Ash Hollow Formation, Hemphillian), Keith County, Nebraska - Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (8), 99-122 (journal article, English)
B. Engesser, 1980 - Insectivora und Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Neogen der Türkei - Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen (102), 46-149 (journal article, German)
S. Skoczen, 1980 - Scaptonychini Van Valen, 1967, Urotrichini and Scalopini Dobson, 1883 (Insectivora, Mammalia) in the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Poland. - Acta Zoologica Cracoviense (24), 411-448 (journal article, English)
P. W. Freeman, 1979 - Redescription and comparison of a highly fossorial mole, Domninoides mimicus (Insectivora, Talpidae), from the Clarendonian - American Museum Novitates (2667), 1-16 (journal article, English)
G. Storch, 1978 - Die turolische Wirbeltierefauna von Dorn-Dürkheim, Rheinhessen (SW Deutschland) 2. Mammalia: Insectivora - (58), 421-449 (journal article, English)
A. K. Agadjanian, 1978 - Prosomys insuliferus (Kowalski 1958) (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Poland and the European part of the USSR - Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia (31), 29-53 (journal article, English)
M. R. Voorhies, 1977 - Fossil moles of Late Hemphillian age from Northeastern Nebraska - Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (4), 129-138 (journal article, English)
C. G. Rümke, 1976 - Insectivora from Pikermi and Biodrak (Greece) - Proceedings van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B (79), 256-270 (journal article, English)
T. L. Yates, 1975 - Karyotype of the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus), with comments on the karyology of the family Talpidae - Journal of Mammalogy (56), 902-905 (journal article, English)
W. W. Dalquest, 1975 - Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas - Occasional Papers, Museum, Texas Tech University (30), 1-52 (journal article, English)
H. Mayr, 1975 - Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns - Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Paläontologie und historische Geologie (15), 91-111 (journal article, German)
J.-Y. Crochet, 1974 - Les Insectivores des Phosphorites du Quercy. [Insectivores of the Quercy Phosphorites]. - Palaeovertebrata, Montpellier (6), 109-159 (journal article, French)
J. Gibert, 1974 - New Insectivores from the Miocene of Spain II. - Proceedings Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Serie B (79), 124-133 (journal article, English)
C. G. Rümke, 1974 - A new Demanella species from the Turulian of Concud and los Mansuetes - Proceedings Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch (B77), 359-374 (journal article, English)
J. H. Hutchison, 1974 - Notes on type specimen of European Miocene Talpidae and a tentative classification of Old World Tertiary Talpidae (Insectivora: Mammalia) - Geobios (No. 7), 211-256 (journal article, English)
J. H. Hutchison, 1972 - Hutchison: Review of the Insectivora from the Early Miocene Sharps Formation of South Dakota - Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (235), 1-16 (journal article, English)
B. Engesser, 1972 - Die obermiozäne Säugetierfauna von Anwil (Baselland); (The Upper Miocene mammalian fauna of Anwil, Baselland) - Tätigkeitsberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Baselland (28), 35-364 (Ph.D. thesis, German)
J. R. Macdonald, 1970 - Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota - Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science (8), 165-82 (journal article, English)
J. H. Hutchison, 1968 - Fossil Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Tertiary of Oregon - Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon (11), 1-117 (journal article, English)
B. Kurten, 1968 - Pleistocene Mammals of Europe - (), 1-317 (book, English)
L. Van Valen, 1967 - New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (135), 217-284 (journal article, English)
K. M. Reed, 1962 - Two new species of fossil Talpid Insectivores - Breviora (168), - (journal article, English)
R. H. Tedford, 1961 - Clarendonian Insectrivora from the Ricardo Formation, Kern County California - Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences (60), 57-76 (journal article, English)
M. Green, 1956 - The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota - Journal of Paleontology (30), 146-169 (journal article, English)
J. A. Shotwell, 1956 - Hemphillian mammalian assemblage from northeastern Oregon - Geological Society America Bulletin (67), - (journal article, English)
C. W. Hibbard, 1941 - New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas - American Midland Naturalist (26), 337-368 (journal article, English)
H, Tobien, 1939 - Die Insektenfresser und Nagetieree aus der aquitanen Spaltenfüllung bei Tomerdingen (Ulmer Alb). - Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Feiburg um Breisgau. (36), 159-180 (journal article, German)
B. Campbell, 1939 - The shoulder anatomy of the moles. A study in phylogeny and adaptation - American Journal of Anatomy (64), 1-39 (journal article, English)
W. D. Matthew, 1932 - New fossil mammals from the Snake Creek Quarries - American Museum Novitates (540), 1-8 (journal article, English)
T. Kormos, 1930 - Diagnosen neuer Säugetiere aus dem Oberpliozänen fauna des Somlyóberges bei Püspökfürdö - Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (27), 237-246 (journal article, German)
T. Kormos, 1930 - Desmana thermalis n.sp. eine neue präglaziale Bisamspitzmaus aus Ungarn. - Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (27), 1-19 (journal article, German)
T. Kormos, 1913 - Trois nouvelles espèces fossiles des Desmand en Hongrie - Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (XI), 136-146 (journal article, French)
T. S. Palmer, 1904 - Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals - North American Fauna (23), 1-984 (serial monograph, English)
E. Douglass, 1903 - New vertebrates from the Montana Tertiary - Annals of Carnegie Museum (2), 145-199 (journal article, English)
C. Gaillard, 1899 - Mammifères miocènes nouveaux ou peu connus de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère). - Archives des Museum d'histoire Naturelle de Lyon (VII), 1-79 (journal article, French)
H. Filhol, 1890 - Descripion d'un nouveau genre d'insectivore provenant des dépots de phosphate de Chaux du Quercy. - Bulletin Societé philomatique de Paris (8), 176-177 (journal article, French)
M. Schlosser, 1877 - Die Affen, Lemuren, Chiropteren, Insectivoren, Marsupialier, Creodonten und Carnivoren des Europaischen Tertiars - Beitrage zur Paleontologie Osterreich-Ungarns un des Orients (6), 1-224 (journal article, German)
J. E. Gray, 1825 - An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe - Annals of Philosophy, new series (10), 337-344 (journal article, English)
J. E. Gray, 1821 - On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals - The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review (15), 296-310 (journal article, English)
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - - Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima (1), 1-824 (book, other)