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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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!
