“…In contrast to S anchez-Villagra et al (2006), most molecular data sets suggest that Mogera and Euroscaptor are sister taxa, to the exclusion of Talpa (Yates and Moore, 1990;Tsuchiya et al, 2000;Shinohara et al, 2003Shinohara et al, , 2004Shinohara et al, , 2005Shinohara et al, , 2008Cabria et al, 2006;Colangelo et al, 2010). Furthermore, the genus Euroscaptor is often found to be paraphyletic in both molecular (Shinohara et al, 2005(Shinohara et al, , 2008Colangelo et al, 2010;Crumpton and Thompson, 2013;He et al, 2014) and morphological (Motokawa, 2004) studies, whereas both Parascaptor and Scaptochirus are little studied; the former has only recently been included in a molecular phylogeny (He et al, 2014). In this study, the interrelationships of the Talpini are investigated using a relatively large molecular data set (»10 kb) that also supports the paraphyly of Euroscaptor and a sister-group relationship between Scaptochirus and Parascaptor, which themselves form nested sister clades with Euroscaptor (to the exclusion of E. mizura), Mogera, E. mizura, and finally Talpa.…”