''Urotrichus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of talpid that contains a single living species, the Japanese shrew mole ''(Urotrichus talpoides)''. Two fossil species ('' Urotrichus dolichochir'' and '' Urotrichus giganeus'') are also known. ''Urotrichus talpoides'' is also known from the

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division ...

of Japan, while ''U. giganteus'' is known from the

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

of Austria, ''U. dolichochir'' from the Miocene of Germany, Poland and Slovakia, and an unidentified species from the Miocene of Greece. The genus may be descended from the structurally-similar

species '' Tenuibrachiatum storchi'', which shares features such as a slender humerus and a missing lower incisor.

References

Talpidae Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck {{soricomorpha-stub