A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Talpidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Medog moleAlpiscaptulus medogensis Jiang & Chen in Chen et al., 2021 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| DesmanDesmana moschata (Linnaeus, 1758) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| True's Shrew MoleDymecodon pilirostris True, 1886 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kuznetsov's MoleEuroscaptor kuznetsovi Zemlemerova et al., 2016 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pyrenean DesmanGalemys pyrenaicus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1811) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echigo MoleMogera etigo Yoshiyuki & Imaizumi, 1991 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sado MoleMogera tokudae Kuroda, 1940 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ryukyu MoleMogera uchidai (Abe, Shiraishi & Arai, 1991) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese MoleMogera wogura (Temminck, 1842) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| American Shrew MoleNeurotrichus gibbsii (Baird, 1858) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-tailed MoleParascaptor leucura (Blyth, 1850) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern MoleScalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gansu MoleScapanulus oweni Thomas, 1912 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Broad-footed MoleScapanus latimanus (Bachman, 1842) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-faced MoleScaptochirus moschatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed MoleScaptonyx fusicaudus A. Milne-Edwards, 1872 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Altai MoleTalpa altaica Nikolsky, 1883 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blind MoleTalpa caeca Savi, 1822 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caucasian MoleTalpa caucasica Satunin, 1908 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| European MoleTalpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Levant MoleTalpa levantis Thomas, 1906 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Iberian MoleTalpa occidentalis Cabrera, 1907 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ognev's MoleTalpa ognevi Stroganov, 1944 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Roman MoleTalpa romana Thomas, 1902 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Balkan MoleTalpa stankovici V. Martino & E. Martino, 1931 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Talysch MoleTalpa talyschensis Vereschchagin, 1945 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Talpa transcaucasica Dahl, 1945 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Inquisitive Shrew MoleUropsilus investigator (Thomas, 1922) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Snow Mountain Shrew MoleUropsilus nivatus G. M. Allen, 1923 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese Shrew MoleUrotrichus talpoides Temminck, 1841 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.