Crocidura nimbasilvanus

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 nimbasilvanus

Name

Crocidura nimbasilvanus Hutterer, 2003

• Holotype: MNHN 1991-1799.
• Type locality: Ziela, Mt. Nimba, Guinea.

Combinations

• Crocidura odorata guineensis Heim de Balsac, 1968 : 384 [original combination preoccupied by Crocidura occidentalis guineensis Cabrera, 1903 : 22]
• Crocidura goliath nimbasilvanus Hutterer, 2003 : 370 [replacement name]

Change of status

• Crocidura nimbasilvanus: Jacquet, Hutterer, Nicolas, Decher, Coulox & Denys, 2013: 24 [elevate subspecies to species]

References

Primary references

• Heim de Balsac, H. 1968. Recherches sur la faune des Soricidae de l’Ouest Africain (du Ghana au Sénégal). Mammalia 32: 379–418.
• Hutterer, R. 2003. Two replacement names and a note on the author of the shrew family Soricidae (Mammalia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 50: 369–370.
• Jacquet, F., Hutterer, R., Nicolas, V., Decher, J., Colyn, M., Coulox, A. & Denys, C. 2013. New status for two African giant forest shrews Crocidura goliath goliath and C. goliath nimbasilvanus (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) inferred from molecular and geometic morphometric analyses. African Zoology 48(1): 13–29. DOI: 10.3377/004.048.0108 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Quérouil, S., Barrière, P., Colyn, M., Hutterer, R., Dudu, A., Dillen, M. & Verheyen, E. 2005. A molecular insight into the systematics of African Crocidura (Crocidurinae, Soricidae) using 16s rRNA sequences. Pp. 99–113. In: Merritt, J.F., Churchfield, S., Hutterer, R. & Sheftel, B.I. (Eds.). Advances in the Biology of Shrews II. International Society of Shrew Biologists, New York.
• Dubey, S., Salamin, N., Ruedi, M., Barrière, P., Colyn, M. & Vogel, P. 2008. Biogeographic origin and radiation of the Old World crocidurine shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3): 953–963. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.002