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Old views and new insights: taxonomic revision of the Bukovina blind mole rat, Spalax graecus (Rodentia: Spalacinae)

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Tartalom: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12081
Archívum: MTA Könyvtár
Gyűjtemény: Status = Unpublished

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Cím:
Old views and new insights: taxonomic revision of the Bukovina blind mole rat, Spalax graecus (Rodentia: Spalacinae)
Létrehozó:
Németh, Attila
Homonnay, Zalán G.
Krízsik, Virág
Csorba, Máté
Pavlíček, Tomáš
Hegyeli, Zsolt
Hadid, Yarin
Sugár, Szilárd
Farkas, János
Csorba, Gábor
Dátum:
2013
Téma:
QL01 Systematic zoology / állatrendszertan
Tartalmi leírás:
As a result of their rather uniform external appearance and gross cranial morphology, the systematics of blind mole
rats has been hotly debated over the last century; however, the separation of the large-bodied and small-bodied
blind mole rats at the genus level (Spalax and Nannospalax, respectively), suggested earlier on morphological
grounds, is strongly supported by recent molecular biological evidence. The species of Spalax have so far been
distinguished from each other by cranial traits only, especially the outline of sutures of the cranium, and the shape
and relative size of the nasal and parietal bones. Based on mitochondrial DNA sequences (with the widest
taxonomic and geographic coverage so far) and detailed anatomical comparisons of museum specimens, we
herewith provide a revision of the taxonomic and phylogenetic status of the westernmost representative of the
genus, Spalax graecus s.l. We clarify that antiquus and istricus ? presently regarded as synonyms of graecus ? are
well-defined species, and they together form a separate clade within Spalax. The robustness of our conclusions is
supported by the combined evidence of morphology, multilocus phylogeny, species distribution, and taxon history
(species congruence with past tectonic and climate events).
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Azonosító:
Németh, Attila and Homonnay, Zalán G. and Krízsik, Virág and Csorba, Máté and Pavlíček, Tomáš and Hegyeli, Zsolt and Hadid, Yarin and Sugár, Szilárd and Farkas, János and Csorba, Gábor (2013) Old views and new insights: taxonomic revision of the Bukovina blind mole rat, Spalax graecus (Rodentia: Spalacinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169 (4). pp. 903-914. ISSN 0024-4082 (Unpublished)
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