Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Afrosoricida > Family: Talpidae > Genus: Talpa > Species: Talpa occidentalis

Iberian mole - Talpa occidentalis Cabrera, 1907

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Threat status Europe	Least Concern (IUCN)
Most preferred habitats	grassland woodland and forest
May also occur in	agricultural mosaics cropland
The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species. The main focus of the EUNIS species component is to provide relevant information about the European species protected by Directives, Conventions and Agreements. The species assessed in the European Red Lists prepared by the IUCN for the European Commission are also included. See here what is Europe from a geographical point of view. Other resources available below may have more information.

Threat status Europe

Least Concern (IUCN)

Most preferred habitats

grassland
woodland and forest

May also occur in

agricultural mosaics
cropland

The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species.

The main focus of the EUNIS species component is to provide relevant information about the European species protected by Directives, Conventions and Agreements. The species assessed in the European Red Lists prepared by the IUCN for the European Commission are also included.

See here what is Europe from a geographical point of view.

Other resources available below may have more information.

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Least Concern

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Not listed in legal texts

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Ibériai vakond	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Iberian mole	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Iberijski krt	Slovenian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Iberische blinde mol	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Iberska krtica	Croatian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kret zachodni	Polish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Krtek iberský	Czech	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Pyreneidenkontiainen	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Spanischer Maulwurf	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Talpa occidentale	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Taupe ibérique	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Topo ibérico	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Toupeira	Portuguese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Toupeira de Cabrera	Portuguese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

No synonyms available.

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search	National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

External data

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