The Zoochat Photographic Guide to the Eulipotyphla

Desmana


Russian Desman (Desmana moschata)

The range of this species extends from eastern Ukraine into southwest Russia and northwest Kazakhstan, with a disjunct population - possibly introduced - present in the upper reaches of the Ob River in western Siberia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias (taxidermy specimen)


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Galemys


Pyrenean Desman (Galemys pyrenaicus)

The range of this species extends patchily and discontinuously throughout the northern Iberian Peninsula and the western and central Pyrenees, as far south as northern Portugal and the western Sistema Central.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Wow. You sure have fallen low in your standards...

 

It's still better than the only other image of the species in the gallery

 

Really? I think I prefer LaughingDove's one better.

 

Talpa


Altai Mole (Talpa altaica)

The range of this species extends throughout much of western and central Siberia, and south into adjacent regions of northeast Kazakhstan and northwest Mongolia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Pere David's Mole (Talpa davidiana)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations; in coastal south-central Turkey and adjacent western Syria; and in southeast Turkey and adjacent northwest Iran.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Talysch Mole (Talpa talyschensis)

The range of this species is restricted to the southwest Caspian coastline of Azerbaijan and Iran.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ognev's Mole (Talpa ognevi)

The range of this species is restricted to the southeast Black Sea coastline of northeast Turkey and adjacent southwest Georgia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Caucasian Mole (Talpa caucasica)

The range of this species is restricted to the northwest Caucasus.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Levant Mole (Talpa levantis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Black Sea coastline of northern Turkey and into the western and central Caucasus.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Balkan Mole (Talpa stankovici)

The range of this species extends throughout the western Balkans, from southern Montenegro to the northern Peloponnese.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. s. stankovici
T. s. montenegrina

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Blind Mole (Talpa caeca)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and discontinuous distribution throughout the western Alps of Switzerland, northwest Italy and southeast France, the Appenine Mountains of Italy, and the Dinaric Alps of the western Balkans from Croatia to western Greece.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Roman Mole (Talpa romana)

Endemic to central and southern Italy; formerly present in Sicily, where it was extirpated in the late 19th century.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Iberian Mole (Talpa occidentalis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the Iberian Peninsula; absent only from the Pyrenees and the northeast.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


European Mole (Talpa europaea)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Europe, from the British Isles, Low Countries and northern France in the west to northwest Russia and western Siberia in the east, and as far south as Mediterranean France, northern Italy, the northern Balkans and Thracian Turkey, and northern Ukraine.

Monotypic.

Photo by @^Chris^




Aquitanian Mole (Talpa aquitania)

The range of this species extends throughout southwest France, the Pyrenees and the northeast Iberian Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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It's certainly not as sinister looking but I think yours shows the difference in facial shape and appearance to "mainstream" moles quite well.

 

Oreoscaptor


Japanese Mountain Mole (Oreoscaptor mizura)

The range of this species comprises a patchy distribution throughout Honshu Island in Japan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Mogera


Ussuri Mole (Mogera robusta)

The range of this species extends throughout the southeast Russian Far East and into northeast China and the Korean Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Large Japanese Mole (Mogera wogura)

The range of this species extends throughout western and southern Japan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Giant Eland




Small Japanese Mole (Mogera imaizumii)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout central and western Japan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Giant Eland




Sado Mole (Mogera tokudae)

Endemic to Sado Island in central Japan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Echigo Mole (Mogera etigo)

The range of this species is restricted to the Echigo Plain of Honshu, in central Japan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Senkaku Mole (Mogera uchidai)

Endemic to Uotsuri-jima in southwest Japan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Insular Mole (Mogera insularis)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations; one endemic to Hainan; and one endemic to Taiwan.

Two subspecies are recognised:

M. i. insularis
M. i. hainana

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Kano's Mole (Mogera kanoana)

Endemic to the mountains of central Taiwan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


La Touche's Mole (Mogera latouchei)

The range of this species extends throughout southern China and into northeast Vietnam.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Euroscaptor


Himalayan Mole (Euroscaptor micrurus)

The range of this species extends throughout the eastern Himalayas, from eastern Nepal in the west, through Bhutan and northwest India, to southwest China in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Greater Chinese Mole (Euroscaptor grandis)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of south-central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Long-nosed Mole (Euroscaptor longirostris)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout central and southern China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Kloss' Mole (Euroscaptor klossi)

The range of this species extends throughout northern Thailand and adjacent northwest Laos.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Kuznetsov's Mole (Euroscaptor kuznetsovi)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout southern China and northeast Vietnam.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Orlov's Mole (Euroscaptor orlovi)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout south-central China and into northwest Vietnam and possibly northern Laos.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Vietnamese Mole (Euroscaptor subanura)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of northern Vietnam.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Small-toothed Mole (Euroscaptor parvidens)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations in central and southern Vietnam.

Two subspecies are recognised:

E. p. parvidens
E. p. ngoclinhensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Malaysian Mole (Euroscaptor malayanus)

The range of this species is restricted to the Cameron Highlands of Peninsular Malaysia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Parascaptor


White-tailed Mole (Parascaptor leucurus)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations; in northeast India, Bangladesh and northwest Myanmar; and from south-central China into northern Laos.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Scaptochirus


Short-faced Mole (Scaptochirus moschatus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northeast and central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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SOLENODONTIDAE


This family contains 2 genera, as follows:

Atopogale - Cuban Solenodon (monotypic)

Solenodon - Hispaniolan Solenodon (monotypic)
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Atopogale


Cuban Solenodon (Atopogale cubana)

Endemic to Cuba; formerly widespread throughout the island, but now restricted to the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Massif in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @twilighter (taxidermy specimen)


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Solenodon


Hispaniolan Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxurus)

Endemic to Hispaniola; formerly widespread throughout the island, but now only patchily present and close to extirpation in Haiti, with populations more stable in the Dominican Republic.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. p. paradoxurus
S. p. haitiensis
S. p. woodi

Photo by @Giant Eland


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And that's another photographic guide completed as best as is possible at present needless to say, it would be a rather pointless and Sisyphusean task to attempt to list every species we are missing in the hope of encouraging more people to upload photographs; quite apart from anything else it will be impossible for us to get anywhere within a million miles of full representation of this group in the gallery!

That said, there *are* a few species which I think we stand a fair chance of picking up eventually, so I will set a few target species - I've even seen some of them in the wild myself

Indian Long-eared Hedgehog (Hemiechinus collaris)
Daurian Hedgehog (Mesechinus dauuricus)
Moonrat (Echinosorex gymnurus)
Crowned Shrew (Sorex coronatus)
Eurasian Pygmy Shrew (Sorex minutus)
Armoured Hero Shrew (Scutisorex somereni)
Lesser White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura suaveolens)
Shrew-mole sp (Uropsilus sp.)
Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata)
Pyrenean Desman (Galemys pyrenaicus)
Iberian Mole (Talpa occidentalis)

 

Better than nothing as one can imagine, I've listed it as one of the target species because so many of our number either have travelled within the native range or are liable to do so in the future! One of the targets (Hero Shrew) is obviously not going to be possible as a living animal, but it's distinctive enough that it's worth aiming for as a taxidermy specimen.

As noted, there are a few targets I have seen myself frustratingly