Lesser Mole Rat

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Lesser Mole Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Spalax
Species: S. leucodon
Binomial name
Spalax leucodon
Nordmann, 1840
Synonyms

Nannospalax leucodon (Nordmann, 1840)

The Lesser Mole Rat (Spalax leucodon) is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It is found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, and Ukraine.

[edit] References

  • Amori, G. 1996. Nannospalax leucodon. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
  • 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.