Talpa levantis Thomas 1906

Talpa levantis Thomas 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17: 416.

Type Locality: Turkey, S Trabzon, Scalita (= Altindere).

Vernacular Names: Levant Mole.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. levantis Thomas 1906

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. minima Deparma 1960

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. talyschensis Vereschchagin 1945

Subspecies Talpa levantis subsp. transcaucasica Dahl 1944

Distribution: Bulgaria, Thracia and N Anatolia (Turkey), and adjacent Caucasus.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: On specific status, see Grulich (1972) and Felten et al. (1973). Reviewed by Sokolov and Tembotov (1989), Zaitsev (1999), and Kryštufek (2001 a, b). European records by Vohralík (1991). Karyotype has 2n = 34, FN = 68 (Kefelioglu and Gencoglu, 1996).