First record for a partial Isabelline colouration in a European mole, Talpa europaea, from Central Italy
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Leonardo Brustenga
Abstract
The European mole Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758 is a quite common species in Central Italy. I report the first Isabelline individual of this species recorded in the scientific literature. Actually, this species is quite widespread throughout Europe, but coat-colouration anomalies have never been described in Central Italian mole populations. Further research is therefore needed to determine the percentage of occurrence of anomalous individuals and the evolutionary history of coat anomalies in moles.
[Correction added after online publication 16 December 2021: text in the abstract section “Actually, this species is quite widespread throughout Europe, but coat-colouration anomalies have never been described in Italian mole populations.” has been changed]
Acknowledgments
I would like thank Dr. E. Mori for valuable advice, Dr. S. Praleskouskaya for helping with Figure 1, and L. Americani who picked the hiking trail that led to the finding.
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Author contributions: L.B. conducted the study and the data collection himself and wrote all drafts.
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Research funding: This research was conducted without funding.
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Conflict of interest statement: The author declares no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Ethical approval: All procedures performed in this study did not involve live animal handling and were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
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- Ecology
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- First tracking of an eastern spotted skunk litter from birth to independence
- A snapshot of rodents and shrews of agroecosystems in Ethiopian highlands using camera traps
- First photographic record of albinism in Baiomys taylori (Rodentia: Cricetidae)
- First record for a partial Isabelline colouration in a European mole, Talpa europaea, from Central Italy
- The natural history of the Stenodermatinae Chiroderma doriae vizottoi Taddei and Lim 2010 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in a semiarid region from Brazil
- Free-ranging Van Gelder’s bat Bauerus dubiaquercus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) preying on dung beetles in southern Mexico
- First report of albinism in a lactating female of the chestnut long-tongued bat Lionycteris spurrelli Thomas, 1913 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)
- Fruits consumed by phyllostomid bats in a Peruvian Yungas forest: new dietary items for Chiroderma salvini and Lonchophylla handleyi
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- Sexual size dimorphism and geographic variation in forearm length of Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) and Southeastern Myotis (Myotis austroriparius)
- Dental formula variations in wild and domestic Sus scrofa: is the first premolar agenesis an evolutionary trend?
- Taxonomy/Phylogeny
- Morphological and molecular confirmation of the common pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 (Vespertilionidae: Chiroptera), in Xinjiang, China
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