Japanese mountain mole
The Japanese mountain mole is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. Although the Japanese mountain mole is currently classified in the genus Euroscaptor, a study published by the American Society of Mammalogists suggests that they do not truly belong to this genus because of earlier evolutionary divergence from other Euroscaptor species.
In terms of the mole's Morphology,
recently the taxonomic position of the Japanese mountain mole was reassessed and this was based on its external and skeletal morphologies. It was found that the muzzle of the moles showed a unique groove on the ventral side of it and it separates it from the rest of the moles in the family. The study was conducted recently in 2016.
