After Nowak, 1991, McKenna & Bell, 1997, Martín-Suárez, Bendala & Freudenthal, 2001 and Ziegler, 2003
<==o Desmaninae Mivart, 1871 [non Thomas, 1912] (diving moles; vesimaamyyrät)
|-- †Mygatalpa arvernensis Schreuder, 1940
|-- †Asthenoscapter meini Hutchison, 1974
|--o †Desmanella Engesser, 1972; Olig. L. Plio. Eu. [is an Urotrichine? (Ziegler, 2003)]
| |-- †D. amasyae Engesser, 1980
| |-- †D. cingulata Engesser, 1980
| |-- †D. crusafonti Rümke, 1974
| |-- †D. dubia Rümke, 1976
| |-- †D. engesseri Ziegler, 1985
| |-- †D. fejfari Gibert, 1974
| |-- †D. gardiolensis Crochet, 1986
| |-- †D. gudrunae van den Hoek Ostende & Fejfar, 2006
| |-- †D. quinquecuspidata Mayr & Fahlbusch, 1975
| |-- †D. rietscheli Storch & Dahlmann, 2000
| |-- †D. sickenbergi Engesser, 1980
| `-- †D. stehlini Engesser, 1972
|--o †Mygalea Schreuder, 1940
| |-- †M. antiqua (Pomel, 1848)
| |-- †M. magna Ziegler, 1990
| `-- †M. jaegeri (Seemann, 1938)
|-- †Lemoynea biradicularis Bown, 1980
|-- †Praedesmana
|-- †Pliodesmana
|-- †Mygalinia hungarica (Kormos, 1913) Schreuder, 1940
|-- †Galemodesmana
`--+--o †Archaeodesmana Topachevskiy & Pashkov, 1983 [Dibolia Rümke, 1985; Desmana: Ruemkelia Rzebik-Kolowska & Pawlowski, 1994]
| |-- †A. baetica Martín-Suárez, Bendala & Freudenthal, 2001
| |-- †A. pontica (Schreuder, 1940) [type of Archaeodesmana]
| |-- †A. vinea (Storch, 1978)
| |-- †A. turolensis (Rümke, 1985) [Dibolia]
| |-- †A. adroveri (Rümke, 1985) [Dibolia]
| |-- †A. luteyni (Rümke, 1985) [Dibolia]
| |-- †A. major (Rümke, 1985) [Dibolia]
| |-- †A. dekkersi (Rümke, 1985) [Dibolia]
| |-- †A. brailloni (Rümke, 1985) [Dibolia]
| |-- †A. bifida (Engesser, 1980) [Desmana]
| `-- †A. verestchagini (Topachevskiy, 1963) [Desmana]
`--+--o Desmana Güldenstaedt, 1777 [incl. †Desmagale Kretzoi, 1953]
| |-- †D. inflata Rümke, 1985
| |-- †D. kowalskae Rümke, 1985
| |-- D. moschata Linnaeus, 1758 (desmiini; piisamimaamyyrä)
| |-- †D. nehringi Kormos, 1913
| |-- †D. thermalis Kormos, 1930 [Desmagale pannonica Kretzoi, 1953; Desmana crassidens Kretzoi, 1953; Desmana tegelensis Schreuder, 1940]
| `-- †D. verestchagini Topachevski, 1961 [Desmana verestchagini amutriensis Radulescu et al., 1989]
`--o Galemys Kaup, 1829
|-- †G. kormosi (Schreuder, 1940)
|-- G. pyrenaicus Geoffroy, 1811 (vesimaamyyrä)
|-- †G. semseyi Kormos, 1913
`-- †G. sulimskii Rümke, 1985
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- Burkitt, J. H., 1995: Mammals: A world listing of living and extinct species.
–iNet: [file no longer available, looking for a new link]
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- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
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–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698.
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- McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631
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–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xlviii-642-lxiii
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–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xii-643-1629
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–Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 48, #4, pp. 617-648