Kazakhstan blind mole-rat

Kazakhstan blind mole-rat
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Spalacidae
Genus:	Spalax
Species:	S. uralensis
Binomial name
	Spalax uralensis; (Tiflov and Usov, 1939)

Kazakhstan blind mole-rat (Spalax uralensis, alternatively Ural blind mole-rat) is an extant species of blind mole-rat indigenous to Kazakhstan, along the Ural River basin and the flood plains of the Uil, Temir, and Emba rivers.[2] Whereas the species inhabits an area approximately 100,000 km2 in size, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) describes S. uralensis as rare and its habitat prone to overgrazing.[1] In 1993, Puzachenko's morphometric analysis demonstrated that the species was distinct from S. giganteus.[2]

References

Tsytsulina, K. (2008). "Spalax uralensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801882210.

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[iucn-1] Tsytsulina, K. (2008). "Spalax uralensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[msw3-2] Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801882210.