Crocidura allex

Crocidura allex — distribution map

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Eulipotyphla

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Eulipotyphla

Familia: Soricidae
Subfamilia: Crocidurinae
Genus: Crocidura
Species: Crocidura allex

Name

Crocidura allex Osgood, 1910: 20

• Holotype: FMNH Mammals 16820, adult ♂, skin and skull, collected by Edmund Heller, 31 January 1906.
• Type locality: “Naivasha, British East Africa”, Kenya.
• Etymology: Latin hallex, hallicis ‘the great toe’.

Synonyms

• Crocidura alpina E. Heller, 1910: 5
  • Holotype: USNM:MAMM:163089, adult ♀, skin and skull, collected by John Alden Loring, 4 October 1909.
  • Type locality: “West slope of Mount Kenya, altitude 10,000 ft (3,048 m),” Kenya.
  • Etymology: Latin alpinus ‘alpine, of high mountains, of the Alps’, from alpes or alpis ‘high mountains, Alps’.

• Crocidura allex zinki Heim de Balsac, 1957: 151
  • Holotype: SMNS 4512, ♂, skin and skull, collected by Gerhardt Zink, 27 April 1952.
  • Type locality: Kilimanjaro, altitude 3550 m, Tanzania.
  • Etymology: Gerhardt Zink (1919–2003), German ornithologist and zoologist.

References

Primary references

• Osgood, W.H. 1910. Further new mammals from British East Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 10: 15–21. BHL
• Heller, E. 1910. Descriptions of seven new species of East African mammals. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 56(9): 1–5. BHL
• Heim de Balsac, H. 1957. Insectivores de la famille des Soricidae de l’Afrique orientale. Zoologischer Anzeiger 158: 144–153.

Additional references

• Allen, G.M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 83: 1–763. BHL.
• Jaeger, E.C. 1959. Source-book of biological names and terms. Charles C. Thomas: Springfield. Third edition (Revised second printing). Pp. 316. HathiTrust
• Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2009. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 592 pp. ISBN 978-0801893049. Reference page. 
• Dieterlen, F., Turni, H. & Marquart, K. 2013. Type specimens of mammals in the collection of the Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Abteilung A; Neue Serie, 6: 291–303. PDF.
• Fisher, R.D. & Ludwig, C.A. 2015. Catalog of type specimens of Recent mammals: Orders Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera (excluding Rodentia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 644: 1–110. DOI: 10.5479/si.19436696.644.

Links

• Crocidura allex in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Crocidura allex Osgood, 1910 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).}
• IUCN: Crocidura allex Osgood, 1910 (Least Concern)
• Mammal Diversity Database. (2024). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.12). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10463715 Crocidura allex
• FMNH Mammals 16820 Crocidura allex. VertNet. [Retrieved 2024-01-19]
• USNM 163089. Mammals Collections in National Museum of Natural History. [Retrieved 2024-01-19]

Vernacular names

English: East African Highland Shrew
polski: zębiełek wyżynny

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