#0482 · 🦊 mammals
Hairy-tailed Mole
🇳🇱 Borstelmol ·Parascalops breweri
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what is it?
The hairy-tailed mole ( Parascalops breweri ), also known as Brewer's mole , is a medium-sized North American mole. It is the only member of the genus Parascalops . The species epithet breweri refers to Thomas Mayo Brewer, an American naturalist.
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.
- 1,952 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Bachman in 1842 (184 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hairy-tailed Mole
- Nederlands
- Borstelmol
- scientific name
- Parascalops breweri
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Eulipotyphla
- family
- Talpidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,952
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1842 by John Bachman
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Talpidae
#0009 📷 10European Mole
🇳🇱 Europese mol
Talpa europaea
LC 👀 627 in NL
#0310 📷 8Eastern Mole
🇳🇱 Oost-Amerikaanse Mol
Scalopus aquaticus
LC 🌍 5.7k seen
#0435 📷 10Star-nosed Mole
🇳🇱 Sterneusmol
Condylura cristata
LC 🌍 2.5k seen
#0474 📷 8American Shrewmole
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Spitsmuismol
Neurotrichus gibbsii
LC 🌍 2k seen
#0476 📷 8Northern Broad-footed Mole
🇳🇱 Californische Mol
Scapanus latimanus
LC 🌍 2k seen
#0140 📷 10Iberian mole
🇳🇱 Iberische Blinde Mol
Talpa occidentalis
LC 🌍 1.4k seen
#0176 📷 10Aquitanian mole
Talpa aquitania
LC 🌍 327 seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47049, Wikidata Q1470645, GBIF 2436161, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.