Order Soricomorpha Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 220 311 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Mogera wogura (Temminck 1842) [Talpa] wogura Temminck 1842 , in: Siebold, Fauna Japonica, 1 (Mamm.), 1: 19 . Type Locality: Japan ; restricted to Yokohama, Honshu by Thomas (1905 b ) , but believed to have come from W or S Kyushu by Abe (1995) . Vernacular Names: Japanese Mole . Subspecies: : Subspecies Mogera wogura subsp. wogura Temminck 1842 Subspecies Mogera wogura subsp. robusta Nehring 1891 Distribution: Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Senkaku, Tane, Amakusa, Tsushima and other Isls), Korea to NE China and adjacent Siberia ( Abe, 1995 , 1996). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as M. wogura , M. kobeau , and M. robusta . Discussion: For a taxonomic discussion see Corbet (1978 c ) , who treated robusta as a different species. European authors often included kobeae and tokudae ; however, Japanese authors ( Imaizumi 1970 b ; Yoshiyuki 1988 b ) treated them as separate species. Formerly included in Talpa ; but see Imaizumi (1970 b ) , Gureev (1979) , and Gromov and Baranova (1981) . The present arrangement follows Abe (1995) . However, moles from Japan have a different karyotype (2n = 36, FN = 52) than moles from the Korean mainland (2n = 36, FN = 58) ( Kawada et al., 2001 ). Mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences studied by Tsuchiya et al. (2000) revealed three clades in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu) and two distinct clades on the mainland of Korea and E Russia .