Japanese mountain mole

The Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. Although the Japanese mountain mole is currently classified in the genus Euroscaptor, a study published by the American Society of Mammalogists suggests that they do not truly belong to this genus because of earlier evolutionary divergence from other Euroscaptor species.[2]

Japanese mountain mole
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Genus: Euroscaptor
Species:
E. mizura
Binomial name
Euroscaptor mizura
(Günther, 1880)
Japanese Mountain Mole range

In terms of the mole's Morphology, recently the taxonomic position of the Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) was reassessed and this was based on its external and skeletal morphologies. It was found that the muzzle of the moles showed a unique groove on the ventral side of it and it separates it from the rest of the moles in the family. The study was conducted recently in 2016.[1][2]

References
  1. Laginha Pinto Correia, D. (2016). "Euroscaptor mizura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T8385A22320533. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T8385A22320533.en.
  2. Shinohara, Akio; Kawada, Shin-ichiro; Son, Nguyen Truong; Koshimoto, Chihiro; Endo, Hideki; Can, Dang Ngoc; Suzuki, Hitoshi (2014-06-26). "Molecular phylogeny of East and Southeast Asian fossorial moles (Lipotyphla, Talpidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 95 (3): 455–466. doi:10.1644/13-mamm-a-135. ISSN 0022-2372.

Sources
  • Kawada, Shin-ichiro 2016. Morphological review of the Japanese mountain mole (Eulipotyphla, Talpidae) with the proposal of a new genus.


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