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 Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 52 . Type Locality: Sweden , Kristianstad, Engelholm. Vernacular Names: European Mole . Subspecies: : Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. europaea Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. cinerea Gmelin 1788 Subspecies Talpa europaea subsp. velessiensis Petrov 1941 Distribution: Temperate Europe including Britain to the Ob and Irtysh Rivers ( Russia ) in the east. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Husson and Heurn (1959) recognized and named twelve color morphs from the Netherlands that are not listed here. Does not include altaica , caucasica , romana , and stankovici ; see comments under these species. Only europaea and cinerea were regarded as subspecies by Niethammer ( in Niethammer and Krapp, 1990 ). Doğramaci (1989) considered velessiensis as the valid subspecies for Turkish Thrace. A biological review of the species was provided by Witte (1997) . Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68 ( Kratochvil and Kral, 1972 ).