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La Touche's Mole
Mogera latouchei
La Touche's mole (Mogera latouchei) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is found in eastern China and parts of northern Vietnam. It is named after Irish naturalist John David Digues La Touche.
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the insular mole (M. insularis) of Hainan Island and eastern Taiwan (or alternatively just eastern Taiwan), but a 2007 genetic analysis found both species to be distinct from one another. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that M. latouchei is a sister species to a clade comprising the 2-3 island-endemic Mogera species from China and Taiwan (M. insularis, M. kanoana, and M. hainana if the latter is considered distinct from insularis).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1370677.