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The European mole (Talpa europaea) is a mammal of the order Eulipotyphla. It is also known as the common mole and the northern mole. [3] This mole lives in a tunnel system, which it constantly extends. It uses these tunnels to hunt its prey. Under normal conditions, the displaced earth is pushed to the surface, resulting in the characteristic ...
Eurasian water shrew Common shrew European mole. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. Family: Soricidae (shrews) Subfamily: Crocidurinae. Genus: Crocidura. Bicolored shrew, C. leucodon LC; Lesser white-toothed shrew, C. suaveolens LC [2] Genus ...
Clockwise from top right: Small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii), Russian desman (Desmana moschata), Eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus), European mole (Talpa europaea), Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) Talpidae is one of the four families of small mammals in the order Eulipotyphla.
Talpa [3] is a genus in the mole family Talpidae. Among the first taxa in science, [4] Carolus Linnaeus used the Latin word for "mole", talpa, in his Regnum Animale to refer to the commonly known European form of mole. The group has since been expanded to include 13 extant species, found primarily in Europe and western Asia.
Moles. Aquitanian mole, Talpa aquitania [2] (France, Spain) Mediterranean mole, Talpa caeca LC (south of the Alps) Caucasian mole, Talpa caucasica [2] LC (Caucasus, Russia) European mole, Talpa europaea LC; Levant mole, Talpa levantis LC (Bulgaria, Caucasus, Russia and European Turkey) Martino's mole, Talpa martinorum [2]
By the era of Early Modern English, the mole was also known in English as mouldywarp or mouldiwarp, [i] a word having cognates in other Germanic languages such as German (Maulwurf), [7] and Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic (muldvarp, moldvarp, mullvad, moldvarpa), where muld/mull/mold refers to soil and varp/vad/varpa refers to throwing ...
Clockwise from upper left: Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), European mole (Talpa europaea), and ornate shrew (Sorex ornatus) Eulipotyphla is an order of placental mammals which includes hedgehogs, gymnures, moles, shrew moles, desmans, solenodons, and shrews. Members of this order are called ...
The family Talpidae [1] (/ ˈ t æ l p ɪ d iː /) includes the true moles (as well as the shrew moles and desmans) who are small insectivorous mammals of the order Eulipotyphla. Talpids are all digging animals to various degrees: moles are completely subterranean animals; shrew moles and shrew-like moles somewhat less so; and desmans, while basically aquatic, excavate dry sleeping chambers ...