Episoriculus Ellermann and Morrison-Scott 1966
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Episoriculus Ellermann and Morrison-Scott 1966
Episoriculus Ellermann and Morrison-Scott 1966, Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, second ed.: 56.
Type Species: Sorex caudatus Horsfield 1851
Species and subspecies: 4 species with 5 subspecies:
Species Episoriculus caudatus (Horsfield 1851)
Subspecies Episoriculus caudatus subsp. caudatus Horsfield 1851
Subspecies Episoriculus caudatus subsp. sacratus Thomas 1911
Subspecies Episoriculus caudatus subsp. umbrinus G. Allen 1923
Species Episoriculus fumidus (Thomas 1913)
Species Episoriculus leucops (Horsfield 1855)
Subspecies Episoriculus leucops subsp. leucops Horsfield 1855
Subspecies Episoriculus leucops subsp. baileyi Thomas 1914
Species Episoriculus macrurus (Blanford 1888)
Discussion: Described as a subgenus of Soriculus and often included in that genus (Hoffmann, 1985 b). Hutterer (1994 b) presented evidence that Soriculus, Episoriculus and Chodsigoa are not closely related to each other, and that Pleistocene and Pliocene shrews from Europe referred to Episoriculus by many authors (e.g., Rzebik-Kowalska, 1981) belong to the extinct genus Asoriculus, a conclusion widely accepted by paleontologists (Reumer, 1998; Rzebik-Kowalska, 2002).
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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/2B8C70BE226CFA213599FBA1D1C3104D (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231545148 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ellermann and Morrison-Scott
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Episoriculus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Episoriculus and, 1966 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Horsfield, M. D. 1855. Brief notices of several new or little known species of Mammalia, lately discovered and collected in Nepal by Brian Houghton Hodgson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 2, 16: 101 - 114.
- Blanford, W. T. 1888. The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia, Part I. Taylor and Francis, London,. 250 pp.
- Hoffmann, R. S. 1985 b [1986]. A review of the genus Soriculus (Mammalia: Insectivora). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 82: 459 - 481.
- Hutterer, R. 1994 b. Generic limits among neomyine and soriculine shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae). Neogene and Quaternary mammals of the Palaearctic. Conference in honor of Professor Kazimierz Kowalski, Krakow, Poland. Abstracts: 32: 17 - 21,
- Rzebik-Kowalska, B. 1981. The Pliocene and Pleistocene Insectivora (Mammalia) of Poland. IV. Soricidae: Neomysorex n. gen. and Episoriculus Ellerman et Morrison-Scott, 1951. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 25: 227 - 250.
- Reumer, J. W. F. 1998. A classification of the fossil and recent shrews. Pp. 5 - 22, in Evolution of shrews (J. M. Wojcik and M. Wolsan, eds.). Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bialowieza, 458 pp.
- Rzebik-Kowalska, B. 2002. The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Lipotyphla (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Romania. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 45: 251 - 281.