Spalax Guldenstaedt, 1770 . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petrop., ser. 14, 1:410.

COMMENT: Includes Microspalax; see Corbet, 1978:129. Also see Topachevskii, 1969, in [Fauna S.S.S.R., Mammals], n.s., 3(3): 114, who considered Microspalax a distinct genus. Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 128, employed the name Nannospalax in place of Microspalax . For a discussion of the content of this genus, see Martynova et al., 1975, Abstr. Symp. Syst. and Cytogenet. Mamm., Moscow, p. 12- 13, and Vorontsov et al., 1977, Zool. Zh., 56: 1207-1214.

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