Talpidae ecomorphotypes - He et al 2021

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Description: Museum specimen photos illustrating the four major ecomorphotypes within the order Eulipotyphla and the family Talpidae. Representative terrestrial (shrew-like mole, Uropsilus soricipes; bottom right), semi-aquatic (Russian desman, Desmana moschata; right centre), strictly fossorial (Eastern mole, Scalopus aquaticus; left), and semi-fossorial (Chinese long-tailed mole, Scaptonyx fusicaudus; top centre) talpid mole species are given. Date: 2021. Source: Kai He, Triston G Eastman, Hannah Czolacz, Shuhao Li, Akio Shinohara, Shin-ichiro Kawada, Mark S Springer, Michael Berenbrink and Kevin L Campbell: Myoglobin primary structure reveals multiple convergent transitions to semiaquatic life in the world’s smallest mammalian divers. eLife 10, 2021, pp. e66797 (fig. 1), doi:10.7554/eLife.66797. Author: Kai He.