According to The University of Michigans Animal Diversity Web site for example this page  The Talpinae subfamily Scalopinae is synonymous with the term New World moles and relatives and consists of two tribes  One of these is just the starnosed mole which is North American and the only member of its tribe    The other tribe is amusingly to me named the Scalopini a word synonymous with the term hairytailed moles and includes four subgroups three of which are exclusively North American newworld moles    But the forth one though is Chinese  Specifically Gansu Moles  How can this be  There must be some mistake I think  If not something very anomalous and interesting is happening  Forget about calling this group New Word if it has Asian animals what is a North American animal doing in the middle of China