Senkaku mole

{{Short description|Species of mammal}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Senkaku mole

| image =

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Laginha Pinto Correia, D. |date=2016 |title=Mogera uchidai |volume=2016 |page=e.T14563A22323327 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T14563A22323327.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| taxon = Mogera uchidai

| authority = Abe, Shiraishi & Arai, 1991

| synonyms =

| range_map = Senkaku Mole area.png

| range_map_caption = Senkaku mole range

}}

The Senkaku mole (Mogera uchidai), also known as the Ryukyu mole, is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It was formerly classified as being the only species in the genus Nesoscaptor. It is endemic to the Uotsuri-jima ({{langx|ja|魚釣島}}; hiragana: うおつりじま) of the disputed territory of Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyutai Islands ({{lang-zh|c=釣魚台列嶼}}). It is most similar to the Insular mole (Mogera insularis) of Taiwan and mainland China.{{Cite journal|last1=Motokawa|first1=Masaharu|last2=Lin|first2=Liang-Kong|last3=Cheng|first3=Hsi-Chi|last4=Harada|first4=Masashi|date=July 2001|title=Taxonomic Status of the Senkaku Mole, Nesoscaptor uchidai, with Special Reference to Variation in Mogera insularis from Taiwan (Mammalia: Insectivora)|url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2108/zsj.18.733|journal=Zoological Science|language=en|volume=18|issue=5|pages=733–740|doi=10.2108/zsj.18.733|s2cid=53584187 |issn=0289-0003|hdl=2433/57216|hdl-access=free}}