Animalz

Euroscaptor

  • Greater Chinese Mole Euroscaptor grandis

    The Greater Chinese mole has dark brown fur with a silvery sheen. An older survey notes that some locality records are uncertain and that its preferred habitat is unknown.

  • Kloss's Mole Euroscaptor klossi

    This fossorial mole occurs in northern Thailand and northwestern Laos. Its short, dense fur is slate black with a brown wash.

  • Kuznetsov's Mole Euroscaptor kuznetsovi

    Kuznetsov's Mole has a large, elongated body and blackish-brown fur all over. HMW reports it from mountain areas of northern Vietnam and southern China.

  • Long-nosed Mole Euroscaptor longirostris

    This mole from Sichuan, China, has a very long snout. At Mount Emei it has been found on a moss-covered bank in damp forest.

  • Malaysian Mole Euroscaptor malayanus

    This small mole is known from the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. Current MDD uses Euroscaptor malayanus, while a detailed 2008 redescription used the spelling Euroscaptor malayana.

  • Himalayan Mole Euroscaptor micrurus

    A mole distributed in the Himalayan region. The current Mammal Diversity Database uses the spelling Euroscaptor micrurus; a Nepal assessment compiles local observations.

  • Orlov's Mole Euroscaptor orlovi

    This mole has an elongated body, blackish-brown fur and a long, club-shaped hairy tail. It is confirmed in western Yunnan and northwestern Vietnam and lives underground in mountain forest. Its possible range from northern Laos east into northern Vietnam west of the Red River is unconfirmed.

  • Small-toothed Mole Euroscaptor parvidens

    This mole is known from the Dalat Plateau area of southern Vietnam. A 2016 taxonomic study identifies the Chu Yang Sin and related southern populations as E. parvidens in the narrow sense.

  • Vietnamese Mole Euroscaptor subanura

    The Vietnamese mole is recorded in semideciduous forest on low-elevation limestone mountains in northern Vietnam. It has not been found in farms or grasslands around the forest, and its ecological requirements remain unknown.