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Spalax giganteus Nehring, 1898. Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 169. TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Daghestan, W shore of Caspian Sea, near MakhachKaly. DISTRIBUTION: Isolated populations in steppes NW of the Caspian Sea and in Kazakhstan between the Volga River and W margin of the Caspian Sea between the Dnepr and Ural rivers (see Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b). SYNONYMS: uralensis. COMMENTS: Revised by Topachevskii (1969) and listed as a separate species by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Geographic range is parapatric with that of S. microphthalmus (Corbet, 1978c).

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 754-755, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098