Order Insectivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 58 106 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353001 0-89327-235-3 7353001 Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883 . Trans. Soc. Nat. Petersburg , 14: 165 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R ., R .S.F.S. R ., Altai Mtns., valley of Tourak . DISTRIBUTION: S. Transbaikalia; Siberia from 70° N . (Yenesei R.) to N. Mongolia , and between the Ob and Lena rivers. COMMENT: Placed by Yudin, 1971, [Insectivorous Mammals of Siberia], Nauka, Novosibirsk , p. 52, in genus Asioscalops ; but see Corbet, 1978:33; and Gureev, 1979:265 .