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| | Taxonomic status of the Senkaku mole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The taxonomic status of the Senkaku mole, Nesoscaptor uchidai Abe, Siraishi and Arai, 1991 (Mammalia: Insectivora: Talpidae), described from Uotsurijima in the Senkaku Group, Ryukyu Archipelago, was re-evaluated. |
 | | uchidai is most similar to Mogera insularis from Taiwan, although several morphological characters, such as the number of premolars and the shapes of the anterior portion of the palate, zygomatic arch, auditory bulla, and coronoid process, differentiate N. |
 | | Therefore, we synonimize the monotypic genus Nesoscaptor Abe, Siraishi and Arai, 1991 with the genus Mogera Pomel, 1848, and define Nesoscaptor uchidai (Abe, Shiraishi and Arai, 1991) as a valid species endemic to Uotsurijima. |
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