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Condylura

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From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condylura, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2436247	https://www.gbif.org/species/2436247
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40401	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40401

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : Condylura

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Talpidae : Condylura

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
order	Lipotyphla	Haeckel 1866
family	Talpidae
genus	Condylura	Illiger 1811

Common Name

star-nosed mole

Scientific Name

Condylura Illiger, 1811

Name Published In

Illiger, Johann K. W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium: Additis Terminis Zoographicis Utriusque Classis, Eorumque Versione Germanica. Sumptibus C. Salfeld, Berolini.: i-xviii + 1-301.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Condylura	genus	belongs to Talpidae	stated without evidence	Illinger, 1811
Condylura	genus	belongs to Talpina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1825
Condylura	genus	belongs to Condylurini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Condylura	genus	belongs to Talpidae	stated with evidence	Yates and Schmidly, 1975
Condylura	genus	belongs to Talpidae	stated without evidence	Kurten and Anderson, 1980
Condylura	genus	belongs to Talpidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Condylura	genus	belongs to Talpidae	stated without evidence	Albright et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.30 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Talpidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Common Name(s)

Star-nosed Moles, Star-nosed Mole

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condylura

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Condylura cristata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Star-nosed Mole	10	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Astromydes Blyth, 1863	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Astromydes*
Rhinaster Wagler, 1830	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Rhinaster*
Astromyctes Gray, 1843	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Astromyctes*
Condylurus de Blainville, 1838	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Condylurus*
Talpasorex Schinz, 1821	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Talpasorex*
Astromycter Harris, 1825	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Astromycter*
Condytura Bell, 1839	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Condytura*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1811	Condylura Illinger
1821	Talpasorex Schinz
1825	Condylura Gray p. 339
1825	Astromycter Harris
1830	Rhinaster Wagler
1967	Condylura Van Valen
1975	Condylura Yates and Schmidly p. 902
1980	Condylura Kurten and Anderson p. 113
1988	Condylura Carroll
2019	Condylura Albright et al. p. 167

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Gray J. E. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe, Annals of Philosophy, new series 10, 337-344

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

Yates T. L., Schmidly D. J. (1975) Karyotype of the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus), with comments on the karyology of the family Talpidae, Journal of Mammalogy 56 4, 902-905

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Albright L. B., Sanders A. E., et al (2019) Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57 2, 77-236

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 91 Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4), 1 (1926) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Prod. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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