7-415: Mogera kobeae Thomas , 1905 The Japanese mole ( Mogera wogura ; 土竜 or コウベモグラ, lit. "Earth Dragon"), also known as Temminck's mole , is a species of mole endemic to Japan . A solitary and diurnal species, it can live for up to 3.5 years in the wild. Their sizes vary depending on the temperature and the hardness of the soil they reside in. The Kobe mole ( M. kobeae ) was formerly described as
14-567: A distinct species, but is now known to be conspecific with M. wogura . This species has shown signs of genetic drift through either paripatric or peripatric speciation. This conclusion has been reached due to the dental anomalies found within the Japanese Mole populations, depending on the region where the Japanese mole is found. M. wogura is believed to have derived from the arrival of its ancestor to Japan around 0.1 to 0.01 MYA. This
21-512: The M. wogura species discovered in both September and October respectively. This Talpidae -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Oldfield Thomas Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas FRS FZS (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist . Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals , describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for
28-441: The department, he hired Richard Lydekker to rearrange the exhibitions, allowing Thomas to concentrate on these new specimens. Thomas viewed his taxonomy efforts from the scope of British imperialism . "You and I in our scientific lives have seen the general knowledge of Mammals of the world wonderfully advanced – there are few or no blank areas anymore", he said in a letter to Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. Officially retired from
35-596: The first time. He was appointed to the museum secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the zoological department in 1878. In 1891, Thomas married Mary Kane, daughter of Sir Andrew Clark , heiress to a small fortune, which gave him the finances to hire mammal collectors and present their specimens to the museum. He also did field work himself in Western Europe and South America. His wife shared his interest in natural history, and accompanied him on collecting trips. In 1896, when William Henry Flower took control of
42-527: The litter size of M. tokudae (including M. etigo), M. imaizumii (Abe 1968), M. wogura (Fujiwara 1960C, 1962), and Hoslett and Imaizumi (1966, 1967) it was shown that the season of reproduction for the Mogera species is usually limited in spring. However, in 2004 there were three young offspring of M. wogura in their nest in October within western Japan. There was a sexually active male and lactating female, both of
49-554: Was around the last recorded glacial period. The Japanese mole ( Mogera wogura) uses two methods of locomotion: crawling and burrowing, which provide an insight into its highly evolved mechanism of strong neural control. The Japanese mole's neural connections in its thoracic and lumbar vertebrate have an extremely strong connection with its fore and hindlimbs, which aid it in locomotion. They use these skills to remove piles of loose dirt through stroke-like movements compared to that of swimming. Based on observations of previous specimens of
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