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The Levant mole ( Talpa levantis) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
Moles in the genus Talpa are morphologically very similar to each other, which has made separating the species difficult before the wide availability of genetic analysis. The Talysch mole ( T. talyschensis) was formerly considered a synonym of T. levantis, but more recent studies have found it to be distinct. A 2020 taxonomic analysis found three distinct genetic populations in the western, central, and eastern ends of its range, and separated them into three subspecies: Talpa levantis dogramacii (newly named in this study, after Salih Doğramacı), T. l. levantis, and T. l. transcaucasica. Based on genetic data, recent studies, including Demırtaş et al (2020) and Gündüz et al. (2023) have separated the eastern subspecies of T. levantis as its own species, T. transcaucasica, the Transcaucasian mole.
A fossil example of T. levantis is known from Yarimburgaz Cave in Turkey, dated to the Middle Pleistocene.
Unlike other species in the genus, it has 38 pairs of chromosomes.
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