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Spalax Guldenstaedt 1770

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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auditory system

Ladich and Popper 2004
otoliths
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q591800

Definition: Inner-ear structure in vertebrates which detects acceleration and may detect acoustic signals

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Vater et al 2004
tympanic middle ear
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001756

Definition: the air-filled cavity within the skull of vertebrates that lies between the outer ear and the inner ear. It is linked to the pharynx (and therefore to outside air) via the Eustachian tube and in mammals contains the three ear ossicles, which transmit auditory vibrations from the outer ear (via the tympanum) to the inner ear

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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locomotion

Lovegrove 2014
non-cursorial
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/nonCursorial

Definition: This organism is not adapted for running.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursorial

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Lovegrove 2004
digitigrade
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q184503

Definition: animal that stands or walks on the full length of its digits/toes

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Biewener 1989
quadrupedal movement
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21907045

Definition: terrestrial locomotion in animals using four limbs

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mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
apatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl

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number of public records in bold

Barcode of Life Data Systems

3

number of specimens in ggbn

GGBN data coverage

238

sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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testis location

Lovegrove 2014
inguinal
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/inguinal

Definition: Descended but ascrotal testes, a derived condition in mammals.

Attribution: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeb.12373/full

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visual system

Nev 1979
blind
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10874

Definition: complete or nearly complete lack of vision

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