Order Rodentia (Part 4) 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) 477 504 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353034 4170533d-8435-4cb4-93df-e7f9489eb798 0-89327-235-3 7353034 Spalax Guldenstaedt, 1770 . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petrop., ser. 14, 1:410 . COMMENT: Includes Microspalax ; see Corbet, 1978:129. Also see Topachevskii, 1969 , in [Fauna S.S.S.R., Mammals], n.s., 3(3): 114, who considered Microspalax a distinct genus. Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 128 , employed the name Nannospalax in place of Microspalax . For a discussion of the content of this genus, see Martynova et al., 1975 , Abstr. Symp. Syst. and Cytogenet. Mamm., Moscow , p. 12- 13, and Vorontsov et al., 1977, Zool. Zh., 56: 1207-1214. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410009001000000.