Talpidae
Author
Russell A. Mittermeier
Author
Don E. Wilson
text
2018
2018-07-31
Lynx Edicions
Barcelona
Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos
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book chapter
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Small-toothed Mole
Euroscaptor parvidens
French:
Taupe a petites dents
/
German:
Pakho-Maulwurf
/
Spanish:
Topo de dientes pequenos
Taxonomy.
Talpa parvidens G. S. Miller, 1940
,
“agricultural station Blao, ‘Déléga- tion de Djynrinh’, near the upper Donai River, Annam, French Indo China [= Di Linh, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam].”
Two subspecies are currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution.
E.p.parvidensG.S.Miller,1940—SVietnam.
E. p. ngoclinhensis Zemlemerova et al., 2016
— C highlands of Vietham (Quang Nam
and Kon Tum provinces).
Euroscaptor parvidens
was reportedly found in S Yunnan (China), but the species identification should be reevaluated.
Descriptive notes.
Head—body 135-150 mm,tail 5-5-10-5 mm, hindfoot 13-5-16 mm; weight 37-3-71-7 g. Tail of the Small-toothed Mole is 4:1-7-1% of head-body length. Body is long, with short tail; most of proximaltail vertebrae are under huge hip. Fur is brownish. Upper molars are conspicuously small. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 36 and FNa = 60.
Habitat.
Mountain forests.
Food and Feeding.
No information.
Breeding.
No information.
Activity patterns.
The Small-toothed Mole is fossorial.
Movements, Home range and Social organization.
No information.
Status and Conservation.
Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The Smalltoothed Mole occurs in two isolated distributions in Central Highlands and southern Vietnam and is poorly known.
Bibliography.
Abramov et al. (2013), Hoffmann & Lunde (2008), Kawada (2016), Kawada, Nguyen Truong Son & Dang Ngoc Can (2008, 2009), Zemlemerova, Bannikova, Abramov et al. (2013), Zemlemerova, Bannikova, Lebedev et al. (2016).