Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Talpidae > Mogera tokudae > Mogera tokudae etigo

Mogera tokudae etigo (Honshu mole)

Synonyms: Mogera etigo

Wikipedia Abstract

The Echigo mole (Mogera etigo) is an endangered species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan, being found only on the Echigo plain, Niigata prefecture.
View Wikipedia Record: Mogera tokudae etigo

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Mogera tokudae etigo

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Nihonkai evergreen forests Japan Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sado - Yahiko - Yoneyama Quasi National Park 200988 Niigata, Japan  

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Sites

Name  Location   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Niigata Lowlands Japan

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan Yes

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
AZE sites provided by Alliance for Zero Extinction (2010). 2010 AZE Update.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0