Balkan mole rat

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Balkan mole rat
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Spalacidae
Genus:	Spalax
Species:	S. graecus
Binomial name
*Spalax graecus* Nehring, 1898

The Balkan mole rat or Bukovin mole rat (Spalax graecus) is a species of rodents in the Spalacidae family found in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.

References

Amori, G. 1996. Spalax graecus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 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.

Extant species of family Spalacidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Myomorpha
Superfamily: Muroidea

Myospalacinae
(Zokors)

Myospalax	M. myospalax group: False Zokor (Myospalax aspalax) Siberian Zokor (Myospalax myospalax) M. psilurus group: Transbaikal Zokor (Myospalax psilurus)

Eospalax	Chinese zokor (Eospalax fontanierii) Rothschild's Zokor (Eospalax rothschildi) Smith's Zokor (Eospalax smithii)

Rhizomyinae

Rhizomys (Bamboo rats)	Hoary Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys pruinosus) Chinese Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys sinensis) Large Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis)

Cannomys (Bamboo rats)	Lesser Bamboo Rat (Cannomys badius)

Tachyoryctes (Mole rats)	Ankole Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ankoliae) Mianzini Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes annectens) Audacious Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes audax) Demon Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes daemon) Kenyan African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ibeanus) Big-headed Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) Naivasha Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes naivashae) King Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes rex) Ruanda Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ruandae) Rudd's Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ruddi) Embi Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes spalacinus) East African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) Storey's African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes storeyi)

Spalacinae
(Blind mole rats)

Spalax

Sandy Mole Rat (Spalax arenarius)
Mt. Carmel Blind Mole Rat (Spalax carmeli)
Middle East Blind Mole Rat (Spalax ehrenbergi)
Upper Galilee Mountains Blind Mole Rat (Spalax galili)
Giant Mole Rat (Spalax giganteus)
Golan Heights Blind Mole Rat (Spalax golani)
Balkan Mole Rat (Spalax graecus)
Judean Mountains Blind Mole Rat Spalax (judaei)
Lesser Mole Rat (Spalax leucodon)
Greater Mole Rat (Spalax microphthalmus)
Munzur Mole Rat (Spalax munzuri)
Nehring's Blind Mole Rat (Spalax nehringi)
Kazakhstan Blind Mole Rat (Spalax uralensis)
Podolsk Mole Rat (Spalax zemni)

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