[jt55401]

What this adds

Adds a European mole (Talpa europaea) record, a species-local fossorial behavior program, and a GB activity curve.

Closes #939

Evidence and scope

GBIF usage key 7872906 resolves to accepted species Talpa europaea; iNaturalist taxon 46970 is active at species rank. Both were checked on 2026-11-01. German Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) supports body measurements, earthworm and insect feeding, the broad European range, and morning, afternoon and around-midnight activity bouts without a strong day/night rhythm. The record uses Cathemeral; ADW's shorter "nocturnal" summary conflicts with the detailed timing. Mass 0.1 kg and head-body length 0.136 m are marked as derived midpoints of published ranges. Authored mesh and behavior choices are labelled as judgments. An unsupported juvenile duration was removed before submission.

ADW explicitly gives a typical wild lifespan of 2–3 years and a separate five-year wild maximum. The record uses the interval midpoint, 2.5 years, and labels the transformation. ADW's account text is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 under its conditions of use; its use is limited to traits.lifespan_y as a last resort after checking the less precise Wikipedia lifespan range, an unlicensed Mammal Society page and a paper with unverified reuse terms. Attribution is retained.

Activity and behaviour

The GB curve combines 2,355 tier-A iNaturalist observations in place 6857 and 41,251 tier-A GBIF occurrences in country GB, both filtered to CC0/CC BY. Both queries were usable; the monthly curve is an observation-frequency proxy. The local fsm-talpa-europaea-v1 uses Burrow gait to travel, flee and seek invertebrates, with energy-based rest and no day/night gate. It is enabled year-round. Burrow has no built-in pose and the renderer does not show underground excavation; the preview uses the declared idle, walk and rest poses. The FSM makes no claim to depict tunnel excavation.

Validate report

Tested commit: b83d2d6.

# speeeecies validation report

| species | status | errors | warnings | cleanliness | provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| talpa-europaea | ⚠️ | 0 | 2 | 68 | 33/33 |

## talpa-europaea
### Warnings
- `MissingShoulderHeight` traits.shoulder_height_m: look.body_plan 'quadruped' usually gives traits.shoulder_height_m
- `NonCommercialLicense` sources.adw: license 'CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0' is tier 4 (non-commercial); backs: traits.lifespan_y
### Licence mix
| tier | datums |
|---|---|
| authored | 2 |
| tier2 | 3 |
| tier3 | 27 |
| tier4 | 1 |
### Behaviour
| program | kind | states/nodes |
|---|---|---|
| fsm-talpa-europaea-v1 | fsm | 5 |

The optional shoulder height was omitted because no reliable species-specific measurement was found. On the final commit, self-check scanned 629 files with zero findings; all-species and all-locale validation exited 0; pytest tools/tests -q passed 347 with 8 skipped. Attribution was regenerated and a second regeneration left species/ unchanged.

Preview evidence

The worker built the site and inspected idle, walk and rest. Burrow has no preview pose or underground scene. No live-scene acceptance is claimed.

Checklist

• Claimed issue, checked current main and open PRs for this species, and verified provider identifiers.
• Checked source locators, licences, transformations, GB activity queries, and behavior actions.
• Regenerated and committed attribution; focused and repository validators and tests passed on the submitted commit.
• Inspected each declared pose: idle, walk and rest.
• Disclosed CC BY-SA and last-resort CC BY-NC-SA sources and the optional measurement warning.
• One species record; no shared records or regional curves were changed.

Remaining work

Maintainer review and merge remain. The public kit cannot show excavation or underground travel in the preview, so a live importer should assess that representation before any scene acceptance.

[jt55401]

Hourly maintainer review: b83d2d6

Disposition: changes requested for length semantics and identifier-source licensing. No merge.

species/talpa-europaea/species.json:traits.length_m=0.136 is explicitly head-body length excluding tail, but schema/v0.1/species.schema.json:traits.length_m requires nose to tail tip for mammals. German Wikipedia, Habitus gives head-body 11.3–15.9 cm and tail 2.5–4.0 cm. A clearly labelled sum of interval midpoints would be 0.1685 m; alternatively source a total-length statistic. Update provenance and recheck the resulting mesh scale.

sources.inat-taxon asserts CC0 for the taxon API without a material-specific grant and consequently carries no attribution. Provider resolution proves the ID, not that licence. Supply the applicable CC0 grant or a verified CC0 identifier source; otherwise record the supported terms and attribution. iNaturalist Terms §2 gives default CC BY-NC context for contributor content. Credit ADW's currently named author Emily Sondergaard and regenerate attribution. The expansive country list, particularly peripheral Balkan codes, needs country-level support rather than only a continental range interpretation; GB is clearly supported.

Verified live accepted GBIF 7872906 and active iNaturalist 46970. ADW Lifespan/Longevity explicitly labels 2–3 years typical wild, separately from the five-year maximum; 2.5 is the correct midpoint and the text's NC-SA licence is verified. German Habitus supports the 72–128 g midpoint; Aktivitäten supports polyphasic day/night activity, so Cathemeral is a defensible resolution of ADW's conflicting nocturnal summary. The only diet category has a reachable feeding action. The local FSM has no daylight or month gate, and energy-based shelter rest is reachable; its excavation/underground rendering omission is disclosed. No outcome tests were added for this new program.

GB iNaturalist place 6857 resolves to United Kingdom and GBIF uses country GB; Mammalia baselines/permissive filters are correct. Fresh 2,355 + 41,251 totals, GBIF month-bearing 34,674, reproduce all twelve values exactly; no fallback. Existing records/regions untouched.

Public checks pass at this head: focused 0 errors/2 warnings, 33/33 provenance, self-check, all-species/all-locale validation, pytest 347 passed/8 skipped, attribution freshness. Current-head validate is green. Viewed idle, walk, rest: no detached/clipping parts observed; the generic mesh omits broad outward-facing digging hands and has no Burrow pose. This is a visible representation limit, with private import/live-scene acceptance untested.