Mogera
Small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Tribe: Talpini
Genus: Mogera
Pomel, 1848
Type species
Talpa wogura[1]
Temminck, 1842
Species

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Synonyms
  • Nesoscaptor Abe, Shiraishi and Arai, 1991

Mogera is a genus of mole in the tribe Talpini. They are native to East Asia.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

Description

Moles in this genus differ from Old World moles in the genus Talpa in having one fewer pairs of lower incisors and in having larger hind premolars in the lower jaw.[2]

Moles of this genus vary in size. Kawada (2016) made a morphological revision of the Japanese mountain mole and proposed the actual position of this species (then known as Euroscaptor mizura) in Oreoscaptor. In this study, the author presented and compared morphometrics of [O]. mizura with 17 other species of talpids, which included 8 species of the genus Mogera.[3] Some information from this study on their head-body length and tail length (in millimeters) and their weight (in grams) are presented in the table below.

Basic morphometrics values of some species of the genus Mogera.[3]
Species Numbers of individuals (n) Head-Body Length (X, mm) Head-Body Length (Range, mm) Tail Length (X, mm) Tail Length (Range, mm) Weight (X, grams) Weight (Range, grams)
M. etigo 13 164.62 157.0 - 170.5 26.04 23.0 - 29.5 123.40 94.9 - 161.5
M. imaizumii 97 126.64 102.0 - 154.0 15.93 8.5 - 22.5 58.74 36.31 - 109.1
M. insularis 12 130.09 112.0 - 139.5 9.32 6.5 - 11.5 57.74 42.0 - 72.5
M. kanoana 11 121.91 113.0 - 133.5 11.09 8.5 - 13.5 39.91 23.5 - 59.0
M. latouchei 17 122.26 116.0 - 130.0 13.94 12.0 - 16.0 39.56 33.0 - 51.8
M. robusta 5 154.10 147.0 - 165.0 18.10 16.0 - 20.5 108.62 95.9 - 127.3
M. tokudae 5 145.92 131.5 - 163.0 26.12 23.0 - 27.5 102.60 82.5 - 120.5
M. wogura 201 158.76 123.0 - 180.0 19.14 11.5 - 29.0 117.25 62.9 - 178.0

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "GENUS Mogera". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ↑ Jo, Yeong-Seok; Baccus, John T.; Koprowski, John L. (2018). Mammals of Korea. National Institute of Biological Resources. pp. 91–93. ISBN 978-89-6811-369-7.
  3. 1 2 Kawada, S. I. (2016). "Morphological review of the Japanese mountain mole (Eulipotyphla, Talpidae) with the proposal of a new genus". Mammal Study. Mammal Society of Japan. 41 (4): 191–205. doi:10.3106/041.041.0404. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
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