Middle East Blind Mole Rat
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| Middle East Blind Mole Rat | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Spalacidae |
| Genus: | Spalax |
| Species: | S. ehrenbergi |
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| Spalax ehrenbergi (Nehring, 1898) |
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The Middle East Blind Mole Rat or Israel Mole Rat (Spalax ehrenbergi or Nannospalax ehrenbergi) is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It is found in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Turkey. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubbish vegetation, and it is threatened by habitat loss.
Recent cytogenetic studies have shown that S. ehrenbergi may actually be a species group containing several cryptic species with chromosome numbers 2n=48, 2n=52, 2n=54, 2n=56 and 2n=58.[1]
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[edit] References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Schlitter, D. 2004. Nannospalax ehrenbergi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
- ^ Sözen,M et al., Some karyological records and a new chromosomal form for Spalax (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Turkey. Folia Zool. – 55(3): 247–256 (2006)
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