Myosorex

Myosorex
(mouse shrews)
Drawing of Myosorex blarina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Subfamily: Myosoricinae
Genus: Myosorex
Gray, 1838[1]
Type species
Sorex varius
Smuts, 1832
Species

19, see text

Myosorex is a mammal genus in the Soricidae (shrew) family. The genus, collectively referred to as the mouse shrews, contains these species:[2]

References

  1. ^ Gray (1838). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: page 124.
  2. ^ Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Soricomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 220–311. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ^ Kerbis Peterhans, J.C.; Hutterer, R.; Mwanga, J.; Ndara, B.; Davenport, L.; Karhagomba, I.B.; Udelhoven, J. (2011). "African Shrews Endemic to the Albertine Rift: Two New Species of Myosorex (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo". Journal of East African Natural History. 99 (2): 103–128. doi:10.2982/028.099.0201. S2CID 84408848.
  4. ^ Kerbis Peterhans, J.C.; Hutterer, R.; Kaliba, P.; Mazubuko, L. (2008). "First record of Myosorex (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Malawi with description as a new species, Myosorex gnoskei". Journal of East African Natural History. 97 (1): 19–32. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(2008)97[19:fromms]2.0.co;2. S2CID 85951806.
  5. ^ Kerbis Peterhans, J.C.; Huhndorf, M.H.; Plumptre, A.J.; Hutterer, R.; Kaleme, P.; Ndara, B. (2013). "Mammals, other than bats, from the Misotshi-Kabogo highlands (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), with the description of two new species (Mammalia: Soricidae)". Bonn Zoological Bulletin. 62 (2): 203–219.
  6. ^ Taylor, P.J.; Kearney, T.C.; Kerbis Peterhans, J.C.; Baxter, R.M.; Willows-Munro, S. (2013). "Cryptic diversity in forest shrews of the genus Myosorex from southern Africa, with the description of a new species and comments on Myosorex tenuis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (4): 881–902. doi:10.1111/zoj.12083.


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