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Myosorex varius
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Myosorex varius (Smuts 1832)
[Sorex] varius Smuts 1832, Enumer. Mamm. Capensium: 108.
Type Locality: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth).
Vernacular Names: Forest Shrew.
Synonyms: Myosorex pondoensis Roberts 1946; Myosorex transvaalensis Roberts 1924.
Distribution: South Africa, from West and Eastern Cape across Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Free State to Mpumalanga and Gauteng Provinces; also Lesotho and Swaziland (Baxter, in litt., 2004).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Revised by Meester (1958). Karyotype (2n = 42) differs from all other southern African Myosorex (Wolhuter, in Smithers, 1983). For synonyms see Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 266, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BFF703DCC4E4C98D20FE0AB477F0FE06 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/8DAA38ECF293F47C48FB66BA51F1CD4C (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231545135 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Smuts
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Myosorex
- Species
- varius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myosorex varius (Smuts, 1832) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Roberts, A. 1946. Descriptions of numerous new subspecies of mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 20: 303 - 328.
- Meester, J. 1958. Variation in the shrew genus Myosorex in southern Africa. Journal of Mammalogy, 39: 325 - 339.
- Smithers, R. H. N. 1983. The mammals of the Southern African Subregion. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 736 pp.
- Heim de Balsac, H., and J. Meester. 1977. Order Insectivora. Part 1. Pp. 1 - 29, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.