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Taxon: Subfamily Spalacinae Gray, 1821 - blind mole-rats (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Spalacidae

Original position

Questionably Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Questionably †*Heramys* (Genus) Hofmeijer & de Bruijn, 1985
Questionably *Nannospalax* (Genus) Palmer, 1903
Questionably †*Pliospalax* (Genus) Kormos, 1932

Subsequent entries

Spalax (Genus) Güldenstaedt, 1770

Current position

Spalacidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 172. [inferred]

Alternative positions

Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 172.

Historical positions

*Muridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 172.
*Muridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 753; 7, 501.
*Muridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 165.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2g;8s; †2g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[2g;8s; †2g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[2g; †2g]
1993	G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton	2g;8s
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[2g];~8s

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