Myosorex Gray 1838
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Myosorex

description: <i>Myosorex</i> Gray, 1838. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 124 [1838]. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Sorex varius</i> Smuts, 1832. COMMENTS: Subfamily status uncertain. Repenning (1967) grouped <i>Myosorex</i> 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). <i>Surdisorex</i> and <i>Congosorex</i> 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 <i>Myosorex were</i> provided by Heim de Balsac (1967, 1968b), Heim de Balsac and Lamotte (1956), and Meester and Dippenaar (1978). The formerly listed <i>Myosorex preussi</i> (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 <i>(Crocidura, Sorex, Sylvisorex),</i> and that <i>preussi</i> does not represent a biological species. Species of conservation concern are listed in Nicoll and Rathbun (1990:21).
description: Published as part of <i>Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 99, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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