#0190 · 🦊 mammals
Lesser Blind Molerat
Nannospalax leucodon
📍 Tulcea, RO-TL, RO
📍 Tropojë, Albanië
📍 Topraisar, Romania
📍 Constanța, RO
📍 Болградський район, Одеська область, Україна
📍 Тарутинський район, Одеська область, Україна
📍 Khotyns'kyi, UA-CV, UA
📍 Tarutyns'kyi, Odessa, Ukraine
📍 Лиманский район, Одесская область, Украина
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © feros · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. Tulcea, RO-TL, RO:© Martin ROMET · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. Tropojë, Albanië:© Joris Groothoff · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Topraisar, Romania:© emiltodorov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Constanța, RO:© Demian Hiß · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Болградський район, Одеська область, Україна:© Natalia Pashkevych · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Тарутинський район, Одеська область, Україна:© Oleksii Vasyliuk · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Khotyns'kyi, UA-CV, UA:© Mikhail Rusin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Tarutyns'kyi, Odessa, Ukraine:© Oleksii Vasyliuk · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Лиманский район, Одесская область, Украина:© Екатерина · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The lesser mole-rat ( Spalax leucodon ) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae found in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Israel, Turkey, Iran and Ukraine. There have been suggestions that its taxonomic position should change in the light of new scientific information. Modern authors tend to separate this and some closely related mole rat species from other Spalax species by classifying them into a separate genus named Nannospalax .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 146 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Lesser Blind Molerat
- scientific name
- Nannospalax leucodon
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Spalacidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 91
- sightings worldwide
- 146
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Spalacidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 852247, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.