Balkan mole rat

Balkan mole rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Spalax
Species: S. graecus
Binomial name
Spalax graecus
Nehring, 1898

The Balkan mole rat or Bukovin mole rat (Spalax graecus) is a species of rodents in the Spalacidae family found in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.

References

  • Amori, G. 1996. Spalax graecus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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