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Myosorex Gray 1838

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Myosorex Gray, 1838. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 124 [1838].

TYPE SPECIES: Sorex varius Smuts, 1832.

COMMENTS: Subfamily status uncertain. Repenning (1967) grouped Myosorex in the Crocidurinae; Reumer's (1987) Crocidosoricinae would fit as well. Kretzoi (1965) based the tribe Myosoricini on this genus; the name is available for any taxonomic unit above the genus level. Generic status sometimes questioned; but see Meester (1954). Surdisorex and Congosorex are often included as subgenera but are treated here as full genera, following Thomas (1906b), Hollister (1918), Meester (1953), Heim de Balsac (1966b), and my own studies. Partial reviews of Myosorex were provided by Heim de Balsac (1967, 1968b), Heim de Balsac and Lamotte (1956), and Meester and Dippenaar (1978). The formerly listed Myosorex preussi (Matschie, 1893), described from "Mount Cameroun ", is not listed here, because a recent examination of the type series has shown that the type series was based on mismatched parts of three different genera (Crocidura, Sorex, Sylvisorex), and that preussi does not represent a biological species. Species of conservation concern are listed in Nicoll and Rathbun (1990:21).

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Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 99, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Insectivora
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Myosorex
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Myosorex Gray, 1838 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Repenning, C. A. 1967. Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 565: 1 - 74.
  • Reumer, J. W. F. 1987. Redefinition of the Soricidae and the Heterosoricidae (Insectivora, Mammalia), with the description of the Crocidosoricinae, a new subfamily of Soricidae. Revue de Paleobiologie, 6: 189 - 192.
  • Meester, J. 1954. On the status of the shrew, genus Myosorex. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 12, 7: 947 - 950.
  • Thomas, O. 1906 b. Two new genera of small mammals discovered by Mrs. Holms-Tarn in British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 18: 222 - 226.
  • Hollister, N. 1918. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part I. Insectivora, Chiroptera, and Carnivora. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99: 1 - 194, 55 pls.
  • Meester, J. 1953. The genera of African shrews. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 22: 205 - 214.
  • Heim de Balsac, H. 1966 b. Faits nouveaux concernant l'evolution cranio-dentaire des Soricines (Mammiferes Insectivores). Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, 263 D: 889 - 892.
  • Heim de Balsac, H. 1967. Faits nouveaux concernant les Myosorex (Soricidae) de l'Afrique orientale. Mammalia, 31: 610 - 628.
  • Heim de Balsac, H. 1968 b. Contribution a l'etude des Soricidae de Fernando Po et du Cameroun. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 19: 15 - 42.
  • Heim de Balsac, H., and M. Lamotte. 1956. Evolution et phylogenie des Soricides africaines. Mammalia, 20: 140 - 167.
  • Meester, J., and N. J. Dippenaar. 1978. A new species of Myosorex from Knysna, South Africa (Mammalia: Soricidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 31: 29 - 42.
  • Matschie, P. 1893. Ueber anscheinend neue Afrikanische saugethiere (Leimacomys g. n.). Sitzungs-berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 4: 107 - 109.
  • Nicoll, M. E., and G. B. Rathbun. 1990. African Insectivora and elephant-shrews. An action plan for their conservation. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 53 pp.