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{{Taxobox
| name = Kazakhstan blind mole-rat
| image = 
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn"/>
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammalia]]
| ordo = [[Rodentia]]
| familia = [[Spalacidae]]
| genus = ''[[Spalax]]''
| species = '''''S. uralensis'''''
| binomial = ''Spalax uralensis''
| binomial_authority = (Tiflov and Usov, 1939)
}}

'''Kazakhstan blind mole-rat''' (''Spalax uralensis'', alternatively '''Ural blind mole-rat''') is an extant species of [[Spalax|blind mole-rat]] indigenous to [[Kazakhstan]], along the [[Ural River]] basin and the flood plains of the [[Uil River|Uil]], Temir, and [[Emba River|Emba]] rivers.<ref name="msw3"/> Whereas the species inhabits an area approximately 100,000 km2 in size, the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]] (IUCN) describes ''S. uralensis'' as rare and its habitat prone to overgrazing.<ref name="iucn"/> In 1993, Puzachenko's [[morphometrics|morphometric]] analysis demonstrated that the species was distinct from ''S. giganteus''.<ref name="msw3"/>

==References==
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<ref name="iucn">{{IUCN|id=136581|taxon=Spalax uralensis|assessor=Tsytsulina, K.|assessment_year=2008|version=2012.1|accessdate=12 August 2012}}</ref>
<ref name="msw3">{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=D. E.|last2=Reeder|first2=D. M.|year=2005|title=Mammal Species of the World|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|location=[[Baltimore]], [[Maryland|MD]]|isbn=978-0801882210|edition=3rd}}</ref>
}}

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[[Category:Animals described in 1939]]
[[Category:Mammals of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Spalax]]
[[Category:Spalacidae]]