The Gansu mole (Scapanulus oweni) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae endemic to central China, where it occurs in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, and Qinghai.

[3][1] Phylogenetic evidence supports the Gansu and Medog moles being the closest living relatives of one another and diverging the mid-late Miocene, about 11.59 million years ago.

It is thought that the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the subsequent climate change isolated the two genera in different habitats, leading to their divergence.

The habitats for both species may have served as refugia during periods of glaciation, allowing them to persist while most other Eurasian scalopines went extinct.

The first specimen of Scapanulus oweni was found by G. Fenwick Owen in 1911 in Gansu, China.