. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Blind moles from SE Europe 11 A- 8,9,10,11,14,15,19,21,27,31, B-2,3, A - 8,15,18,19,27,31,35 B - 2,,6,7. PC I PC I Fig. 13: Projection of (left) 43 male and (right) 21 female Talpa caeca on the first two principal components. Polygons enclose scores for all individuals within a group, and crosses are placed on group centroids. See Fig. 1 for identifying numbers. palatine margin, metaconid on the fourth lower premolar, os falciformis, pelvis), although non
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Blind moles from SE Europe 11 A- 8,9,10,11,14,15,19,21,27,31, B-2,3, A - 8,15,18,19,27,31,35 B - 2,,6,7. PC I PC I Fig. 13: Projection of (left) 43 male and (right) 21 female Talpa caeca on the first two principal components. Polygons enclose scores for all individuals within a group, and crosses are placed on group centroids. See Fig. 1 for identifying numbers. palatine margin, metaconid on the fourth lower premolar, os falciformis, pelvis), although none of them clearly separated these two groups from OTUs 2 and 3. Tak- ing into consideration the relatively common occurrence of the europaeoidal pelvis in T. caeca (OTUs 2 and 3), the separation of T. caeca and T. europaea also appeared difficult on skeletal characters alone. This result suggests an instability of meristic characters in the genus Talpa, and consequently great caution is needed when deter- mining moles by morphological characters alone. Taxonomic conclusions are based on the results of discriminant function analysis, bivariate plotting, and published karyotypic data. Taxonomy Talpa caeca Savi 1822. Talpa caeca Savi. Type locality: Pisa, Italy. Distribution: The Southern Alps of France, Italy and Switzerland, the Apennines, western Balkan Mountains between River Neretva and Mt Olympus. Findings below 1000 m rare in the Balkans, forming only 18 % of the records. According to Corbet (1978) also known from Asia Minor and the Caucasus, but the pygmy moles of the Caucasus regarded as distinct (7^ caucásica and T. levantis), a viewpoint sup- ported by karyological evidence (Sokolov & Tembotov 1989). This study demonstrated T. levantis from Asia Minor to be phenetically distinct from the Balkan populations of T. caeca. Osborn (1964) listed pygmy moles from European Turkey as T. caeca, but Vohralik (1991) con- sidered them, as well as the newly-collected material f
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