Mogera kanoana

Taxobox
name = "Mogera kanoana"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Soricomorpha
familia = Talpidae
genus = "Mogera"
species = "M. kanoana"
binomial = "Mogera kanoana"
binomial_authority = Kawada et al.

"Mogera kanoana" is a species of mole native to Taiwan. The specific name "kanoana" is derived from Tadao Kano, a Japanese naturalist who made the first record of these animals in 1940s.

In 2004, biologists that from Japan and Taiwan found several specimens and confirmed the factuality of the existence of this species.

References

*Shin-ichiro Kawada. "et al." "Revision of the mole genus Mogera (Mammalia: Lipotyphla: Talpidae) from Taiwan." Systematics and Biodiversity 5 (2): 223–240.