Folia Historico-Naturalia Musei Matraensis - A Mátra Múzeum Természetrajzi Közleményei 12. (1987)

Czájlik, P.: A Talpa romana ehiki n. subsp. leírása, koponya méreteinek biometriai elemzése

separated from the Apennines by European spruce-fir forests. These forests were effective barriers for moles. In this way the ancestors of Talpa romána could differentiate into two groups. The same happened during the course of glacier interglacier changes in the Pleistocene. Figure 12. Vegetation map of Europe during the Weichsel glacier (FRENZEL, В., 19613). Big circles indicate the réfugia of the 4 Talpa romána populations .Aquila glacier lies between the South andNort- Italian populations. Legend: 1 - dwarf shrub vegetation with tundra and steppe species, 2 - subarctic cold steppe, withount loess, 3 - Loess steppe with montane vegation, 4 - steppe- woodland, 5 - loess steppe, 6 - forest-tundra and steppe-woodland on loess, 7 - galery forest, 8 - maritime mixed forest, 9 - forest-tundra with steppe mosaics, 10 continental mixed forest, 11 - the border of ice cover, 12 - steppe with cold winters, 13 - steppe without loess, 14 - steppe-woodland Considering the statements in 3. and the reults of biometrical analyses and CAPANNA's (1981) karyotype analysis the folleings are proposed: - Talpa romána - being a stacioner Miditerranean oreal animal - is regarded as Talpa romána superspecies

. - Talpa romána stankovici

, Talpa romána terra typica, Talpa romána (S-Italy) and Talpa romána ehiki are regarded as individual subspecies - it is noted that the northern and southern subspecies groups might be different even at the species level.