Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat
| Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Spalacidae |
| Genus: | Spalax |
| Species: | S. galili |
| Binomial name | |
| Spalax galili Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles, 2001.[1] | |
The Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat (Spalax galili) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the family Spalacidae, indigenous to Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Following the identification of S. galili in 2001, Nevo et al. recorded specimens in the vicinity surrounding the Kerem Ben Zimra settlement.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Nevo, Eviatar; Ivanitskaya, Elena; Beiles, Avigdor (2001). Adaptive radiation of blind subterranean mole rats: Naming and revisiting the four sibling species of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. ISBN 9789057820861.
- ↑ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801882210.
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