Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Talpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883 . Trans. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg , 14:165 . TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Altai Mtns, Valley of Tourak . DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of Siberia between Ob and Lena rivers; south to N Mongolia . COMMENTS: Placed by Yudin (1989:52) in genus Asioscalops ; but see Corbet (1978c:33) . Kratochvll and Krâl (1972) provided karyological evidence for a separation of altaica from the remaining Talpa species.