Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
Subfamily Spalacinae Gray, 1821 - blind mole-rats
Genus Nannospalax Palmer, 1903 - Mediterranean blind mole-rats
Nannospalax leucodon (Nordmann, 1840)