` :::Good luck. There's quite a bit of taxonomic uncertainty there, though, particularly in the ehrenbergi-leucodon-nehringi bunch (``Nannospalax``, I think Topachevsky calls those ``Microspalax``). There's basically a new karyotypic morph every few hundred kilometers (or less) and it doesn't seem unlikely that every one of those is a separate species. That's where the four species recently described from Israel (galili, golani, judaei, and carmeli) come from, as well as a few new ones recently described from Turkey (tuncelicus and munzuri). There are probably also four species in Jordan, not yet described, and lots in Turkey. The others (true Spalax) are more karyotypically conservative and otherwise taxonomically manageable, though there are some uncertainties.  `