Bukovina blind mole-rat, Balkan blind mole-rat
The Bukovina blind mole-rat or (erroneously) the Balkan blind mole-rat (Spalax graecus ) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae found in Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The organism can be described as having a long, cylindrical body with no neck and relatively weak limbs. The Bukovina mole rats are blind and do not possess any external ears.
This species is thought to be threatened by intensive agriculture, which has been implicated in the decline of the sympatric lesser blind mole-rat (Nannospalax leucodon ) in the same region. In Transylvania, subsistence agriculture is still practiced, and thus the population appears stable there, but the addition of Romania to the European Union in the 2007 enlargement of the European Union may spur further intensive agriculture within its habitat.
