Biology:Mount Carmel blind mole-rat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Mount Carmel blind mole-rat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Spalax
Species:
S. carmeli
Binomial name
Spalax carmeli
Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles, 2001.[1]

The Mount Carmel blind mole-rat (Spalax carmeli) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the family Spalacidae, indigenous to northern Israel. Following the identification of S. carmeli in 2001, Nevo et al. recorded specimens in the vicinity surrounding the Afik, Kabri, and Tzippori settlements.[2]

See also

  • List of mammals of Israel

References

  1. 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. 
  2. 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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