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Mogera

{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}

{{For|the kaiju/mecha|Moguera}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Mogera imaizumii.jpg

| image_caption = Small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii)

| taxon = Mogera

| authority = Pomel, 1848

| type_species = Talpa wogura{{MSW3|heading=GENUS Mogera|id=13700702}}

| type_species_authority = Temminck, 1842

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms = * Nesoscaptor Abe, Shiraishi and Arai, 1991

}}

Mogera is a genus of mole in the tribe Talpini. They are native to East Asia.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

Description

Moles in this genus differ from Old World moles in the genus Talpa in having one fewer pairs of lower incisors and in having larger hind premolars in the lower jaw.{{cite book|author1=Jo, Yeong-Seok |author2=Baccus, John T.|author3=Koprowski, John L.|title=Mammals of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71yHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 |year=2018 |publisher=National Institute of Biological Resources|isbn=978-89-6811-369-7 |pages=91–93}}

Moles of this genus vary in size. Kawada (2016) made a morphological revision of the Japanese mountain mole and proposed the actual position of this species (then known as Euroscaptor mizura) in Oreoscaptor. In this study, the author presented and compared morphometrics of [O]. mizura with 17 other species of talpids, which included 8 species of the genus Mogera.{{cite journal |last1=Kawada |first1=S. I. |title=Morphological review of the Japanese mountain mole (Eulipotyphla, Talpidae) with the proposal of a new genus |journal=Mammal Study |date=2016 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=191–205 |doi=10.3106/041.041.0404 |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3106/041.041.0404 |access-date=2 March 2023 |publisher=Mammal Society of Japan|url-access=subscription }} Some information from this study on their head-body length and tail length (in millimeters) and their weight (in grams) are presented in the table below.

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|+ Basic morphometrics values of some species of the genus Mogera.

Species

!Numbers of individuals (n)

!Head-Body Length (X, mm)

!Head-Body Length (Range, mm)

!Tail Length (X, mm)

!Tail Length (Range, mm)

!Weight (X, grams)

!Weight (Range, grams)

M. etigo

|13

|164.62

|157.0 - 170.5

|26.04

|23.0 - 29.5

|123.40

|94.9 - 161.5

M. imaizumii

|97

|126.64

|102.0 - 154.0

|15.93

|8.5 - 22.5

|58.74

|36.31 - 109.1

M. insularis

|12

|130.09

|112.0 - 139.5

|9.32

|6.5 - 11.5

|57.74

|42.0 - 72.5

M. kanoana

|11

|121.91

|113.0 - 133.5

|11.09

|8.5 - 13.5

|39.91

|23.5 - 59.0

M. latouchei

|17

|122.26

|116.0 - 130.0

|13.94

|12.0 - 16.0

|39.56

|33.0 - 51.8

M. robusta

|5

|154.10

|147.0 - 165.0

|18.10

|16.0 - 20.5

|108.62

|95.9 - 127.3

M. tokudae

|5

|145.92

|131.5 - 163.0

|26.12

|23.0 - 27.5

|102.60

|82.5 - 120.5

M. wogura

|201

|158.76

|123.0 - 180.0

|19.14

|11.5 - 29.0

|117.25

|62.9 - 178.0

References

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External links

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{{Wikispecies}}

  • {{cite iucn |author=Kennerley, R. |year=2016 |errata=2017 |title=Mogera tokudae |volume=2016 |page=e.T13603A115115846 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T13603A22323941.en |access-date=6 July 2024}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100922150619/http://edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=68 EDGE :: Mammal Species Information]

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