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The star-shaped nose is a unique organ only found on the star-nosed mole. Living as it does, in complete darkness, the star-nosed mole relies heavily on the mechanical information of its remarkable specialized nose to find and identify their invertebrate prey without using sight (since moles have small eyes and a tiny optic nerve). This organ ...
Condylura is a genus of moles that contains a single extant species, the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) endemic to the northern parts of North America. [1] It is also the only living member of the tribe Condylurini.
Eimer's organs are organs for the sense of touch, shaped like bulbous papillae, formed from modified epidermis.First isolated by Theodor Eimer from the European mole in 1871, these organs are present in many moles, and are particularly dense on the star-nosed mole, which bears 25,000 of them on its unique tentacled snout.
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Star-nosed mole. C. cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) Eastern United States and Canada: Size: 10–13 cm (4–5 in) long, plus 5–9 cm (2–4 in) tail [4] Habitat: Forest, shrubland, and inland wetlands [5]
Star-nosed mole. Star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata [n 4] LC; Hairy-tailed mole, Parascalops breweri [n 4] LC; Eastern mole, Scalopus aquaticus [n 4] LC; Northern broad-footed mole, Scapanus latimanus [n 4] LC and: [n 3] Southern broad-footed mole, Scapanus occultus [9] Mexican mole, Scapanus anthonyi [9] Coast mole, Scapanus orarius [n 4] LC
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 ...
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
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 ...