Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26932
Title: Systematics and macroevolution of extant and fossil scalopine moles (Mammalia, Talpidae)
Contributor(s): Schwermann, Achim H (author); He, Kai (author); Peters, Benjamin J (author); Plogschties, Thorsten (author); Sansalone, Gabriele  (author)
Publication Date: 2019-07
Early Online Version: 2019-03-06
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12422
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26932
Abstract: Scalopini is one of the two fully fossorial mole tribes in the family Talpidae, with remarkable adaptations to subterranean lifestyles. Most living Scalopini species are distributed in North America while a sole species occurs in China. On the other hand, scalopine fossils are found in both Eurasia and North America from upper Oligocene strata onwards, implying a complex biogeographical history. The systematic relationships of both extant and fossil Scalopini across North America and Eurasia are revised by conducting phylogenetic analyses using a comprehensive morphological character matrix together with 2D geometric-morphometric analyses of the humeral shape, with a specific emphasis on Mioscalops, a genus commonly found in North America and formerly known as Scalopoides. Our phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly of the tribe Scalopini as well as a proposed two-subtribe-division scenario of Scalopini (i.e. Scalopina and Parascalopina), although Proscapanus could not be assigned to either subgenus. Our geometric-morphometric analyses indicate that the European Mioscalops from southern Germany should be allocated to Leptoscaptor, which in turn implies that Mioscalops may be endemic to North America and never arrived in Europe. Examination of biogeographical patterns does not unambiguously determine the geographical origin of Scalopini. Nevertheless, it does support multiple transcontinental colonization events across Asia, Europe and North America. Scapanulus oweni, distributed in central China, is the only remaining representative of one of those out-of-North-America migrations, whereas scalopine moles are common in North America nowadays with up to five species.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Palaeontology, 62(4), p. 661-676
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1475-4983
0031-0239
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 060303 Biological Adaptation
040308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
060809 Vertebrate Biology
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 310403 Biological adaptation
370506 Palaeontology (incl. palynology)
310914 Vertebrate biology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Environmental and Rural Science

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