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Old World Moles and Desmans
Talpinae
The subfamily Talpinae, sometimes called "Old World moles" or "Old World moles and relatives", is one of three subfamilies of the mole family Talpidae, the others being the Scalopinae, or New World moles, and the Uropsilinae, or shrew-like moles.
5 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 47 known species
Short-tailed Eurasian Moles
tribeTalpini
American Shrewmoles
tribeNeurotrichini
Japanese Shrewmoles
tribeUrotrichini
Desmans
tribeDesmanini
Long-tailed Moles
tribeScaptonychini
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 846233.