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<h2 id="species">Species</h2> <p class="note">Further information: <a href="/facts/List_of_talpids/hWXgzzz4">List of talpids</a></p> <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/facts/Desmana/uqzBARNR">Desmana</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Russian_desman/uqzBARNR">Russian desman</a> (<i>D. moschata</i>)</li> <li>†<i>Desmana kowalskae</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Desmana nehringi</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Desmana inflata</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Desmana thermalis</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Desmana_marci/wDzmf3sC">Desmana marci</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/facts/Galemys/LqMjVGj3">Galemys</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Pyrenean_desman/LqMjVGj3">Pyrenean desman</a> (<i>G. pyrenaicus</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus †<i>Asthenoscapter</i> Miocene, Europe<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li>Genus †<i>Archaeodesmana</i> Miocene-Pliocene, Europe</li> <li>Genus †<i>Desmanella</i> Miocene, Europe<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li> <li>Genus †<i>Gaillardia</i> Miocene, North America</li> <li>Genus †<i>Mygalinia</i> Late Miocene, Hungary</li> <li>Genus †<i>Magnatalpa</i> Miocene-Pliocene, North America<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li>Genus †<i>Ruemkelia</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> <h2 id="in-the-media">In the media</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Rebecca_Morelle/ah4SxFPT">Morelle, Rebecca</a> (2012-09-04). <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19260705">"Pyrenean desman: On the trail of Europe's weirdest beast"</a>. <a href="/facts/BBC_News_Online/Th1rIwLc">BBC News Online</a>. Retrieved 2012-09-05. video report</li> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5065428.stm">"Russians rally for water mammal"</a>. <a href="/facts/BBC_News_Online/Th1rIwLc">BBC News Online</a>. 2006-06-09. Retrieved 2012-09-05.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Quaglietta, L. (2022) [amended version of 2021 assessment]. "Galemys pyrenaicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T8826A214429993. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T8826A214429993.en. <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/8826/214429993" target="_blank">https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/8826/214429993</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Rutovskaya, M.; Gazzard, A.; Turvey, S.T. (2023). "Desmana moschata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T6506A231334630. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T6506A231334630.en. <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6506/231334630" target="_blank">https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6506/231334630</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Martin, James E. (2017). "A rare occurrence of the fossil water mole Gaillardia (Desmanini, Talpidae) from the Neogene in North America" (PDF). Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science. 96: 95–98. <a href="https://sdaos.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/2017/94-98.pdf" target="_blank">https://sdaos.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/2017/94-98.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Minwer-Barakat, Raef; García-Alix, Antonio; Martín-Suárez, Elvira; Freudenthal, Matthijs (2020-12-01). "Early Pliocene Desmaninae (Mammalia, Talpidae) from Southern Spain and the Origin of the Genus Desmana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (5): e1835936. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E5936M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1835936. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 228905970. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1835936" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1835936</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Hutchison, John Howard (1974). "Notes on type specimens of European Miocene Talpidae and a tentative classification of old world Tertiary Talpidae (Insectivora: Mammalia)". Geobios. 7 (3): 211–256. Bibcode:1974Geobi...7..211H. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(74)80009-4. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Meier, Patricia; Bickelmann, Constanze; Scheyer, Torsten; Koyabu, Daisuke; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo (2013). "Evolution of bone compactness in extant and extinct moles (Talpidae): exploring humeral microstructure in small fossorial mammals". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 55. Bibcode:2013BMCEE..13...55M. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-55. PMC 3599842. PMID 23442022. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599842" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599842</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"Palaeobiology Database: Desmanella stehlini". <a href="https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=65634" target="_blank">https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=65634</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Oberg, Danielle; Samuels, Joshua (2022). "Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1150. S2CID 91857382. <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879%2F1150</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Rzebik-Kowalska, Barbara; Pawłowski, Jerzy. "Ruemkelia (Mammalia, Insectivora, Talpidae) nom. nov. for Dibolia RÜMKE, 1985 (nec LATREILLE, 1829)". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>