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The star-nosed mole lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates such as aquatic insects (such as the larvae of caddisflies, midges, dragonflies, damselflies, crane flies, horseflies, predaceous diving beetles, and stoneflies), terrestrial insects, [9] worms (such as earthworms, leeches, and other annelids), [9] mollusks, and aquatic crustaceans, [9] as well as small amphibians and ...
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.
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 ...
Moles were traditionally classified in the order Insectivora, but that order has since been abandoned because it has been shown to not be monophyletic. Moles are now classified with shrews and hedgehogs, in the more narrowly defined order Eulipotyphla. [16] Subfamily Scalopinae: New World moles Tribe Condylurini: Star-nosed mole (North America)
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
"Which mammals live in Pennsylvania?". Carnegie Museum of Natural History website. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27; Wilson, Don; Deeann Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
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.
The Scalopini are a tribe of moles belonging to the family Talpidae.They include all the New World moles apart from the strikingly distinctive star-nosed mole.As the similarity of the names implies, they are the standard form of the Scalopinae, the North American or New World moles, and can be found virtually anywhere north of Northern Mexico and south of Northern Canada where environmental ...