Notiosorex
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Notiosorex[1] | |
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Crawford's gray shrew (Notiosorex crawfordi) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Soricidae |
Subfamily: | Soricinae |
Tribe: | Notiosoricini |
Genus: | Notiosorex |
Type species | |
Sorex (Notiosorex) crawfordi Coues, 1877
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Species | |
Notiosorex is a genus of shrew from the subfamily Soricinae.
History
Notiosorex shrews have a fossil history that extends to the Miocene (i.e., mid-Hemphillian). The geographic distribution of the genus has always been in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.[2]
Species
There are four described extant species of Notiosorex:
- Cockrum's gray shrew (N. cockrumi)
- Crawford's gray shrew (N. crawfordi)
- Large-eared gray shrew (N. evotis)
- Villa's gray shrew (N. villai)
- (N. tataticuli)
There are several extinct species of Notiosorex described from the fossil record:[2]
References
- ^ Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Carraway, L. N. (2010). "Fossil history of Notiosorex (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) shrews with descriptions of new species". Western North American Naturalist. 70 (2): 144–163. ISSN 1527-0904.
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