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Subfamilies and Genera of the Soricidae GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 565 Subfamilies and Genera of the Soricidae By CHARLES A. REPENNING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 565 Classification, historical zoogeography, and temporal correlation of the shrews UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1967 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEW ART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. GS 67-175 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price 50 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS Page Diagnoses and contents of subfamilies Continued Page Abstract.___-_--------__-_____________________-____ 1 Subfamily Soricinae Fischer von Waldheim, 1817.____ 27 Introduction.______________________________________ 1 Tribe Soricini Fischer von Waldheim, 1817._______ 29 Evaluation of characters...-_________________________ 3 Genus Crocidosorex Lavocat, 1951______________ 29 Diagnoses and contents of subfamilies.____________ ____ 7 Crocidosorex piveteaui Lavocat.___________ 29 Subfamily Heterosoricinae Viret and Zapfe, 1951.____ 7 Crocidosorex antiquus (Pomel)____________ 29 Genus Domnina Cope, 1873____________________ 7 Genus Antesorex Repenning, n. gen______________ 30 Domnina thompsoni Simpson._-_-_--_.___ 8 Antesorex compressus (Wilson)_____---_-_- 31 Domnina gradata Cope._____--.---.._.._ 8 Genus Sorex Linnaeus, 1758.___________________ 31 Domnina greeni Macdonald______________ 9 Genus Drepanosorex Kretzoi, 1941 ___-____-____- 32 Domnina n. sp________________________ 9 Genus Microsorex Baird, 1877_-___-_-_-_-_---_- 33 Genus Paradomnina Hutchison, 1966____________ 10 Genus Alluvisorex Hutchison, 1966___-___-___-_- 33 Genus Trimylus Roger, 1885.__________________ 10 Genus Petenyia Kormos, 1934__________________ 34 Trimylus compressus (Galbreath)_________ 11 Genus Blarinella Thomas, 1911____--__--__----- 34 Trimylus aff. neumayrianus (Schlosser)__ 11 Blarinella kormosi (Schlosser)____________ 35 Trimylus neumayrianus (Schlosser)______ 12 Blarinella quadraticauda (Milne-Edwards). 35 Trimylus dakotensis Repenning, n. sp_.__ 12 Soricini incertae sedis_______________-_---------- 35 Trimylus roperi Wilson._________________ 13 "Sorex" stehlini Doben-Florin.________--------- 35 Trimylus mawbyi Repenning, n. sp________ 13 "Sorex" hibbardi SulimskL_________-_____--_-_- 36 Trimylus sansaniensis (Lartet)___________ 14 Genus Zelceina Sulimski, l962_-_-_------------- 36 Genus Ingentisorex Hutchison, 1966.____________ 15 Tribe Blarinini Stirton, 1930___________________ 37 Subfamily Crocidurinae Milne-Edwards, 1868-1874. _ _ 15 Genus Adeloblarina Repenning, n. gen__ _________ 37 "Sorex" pusilliformis Doben-Florin____________ 15 Adeloblarina berklandi Repenning, n. sp 37 "Sorex" dehmiVirei and Zapfe________________ 15 Genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848_ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - 39 Genus Crocidura Wagler, 1832..________________ 16 Cryptotis adamsi (Hibbard)______________ 39 Crocidura sp., Butler and Hopwood_______ 17 Cryptotis"? meadensis Hibbard- .__-_____ 40 Corcidura wongi Pei.____________________ 17 Cryptotis kansasensis Hibbard-___________ 40 Crocidura taungsensis Broom.____________ 17 Cryptotis parva (Say)___-_-_-_-__--_----- 41 Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos__-___-_-__-_ 17 Cryptotis mexicana (Coues). __________ 41 Crocidura obtusa Kretzoi________________' 17 Genus Paracryptotis Hibbard, 1950 ___________ 41 Crocidura zorzii Pasa__________________ 17 Genus Shikamainosorex Hasegawa, 1957_________ 42 Genus Diplomesodon Brandt, 1853_-__------_-_- 17 "Sorex" dehrieli KowalskL_________----_---_--- 42 Diplomesodon fossorius Repenning._______ 18 Genus Blarina Gray, 1838__._..__--------- - 42 Genus Feroculus Kelaart, 1852________________ 18 Blarina gidleyi Gazin ______-_-_------- 43 Genus Miosorex Kretzoi, 1959._________________ 18 Genus Blarinoides Sulimski, 1959.___-_--__---_- 44 Miosorex grivensis (Depe"ret)_____________ 19 Blarinini? incertae sedis.___________------------- 44 Genus Myosorex Gray, 1838.___________________ 19 "Sorex" kretzoii Sulimski______________-_--_-- 44 Myosorex robinsoni Meester._____________ 20 Peisorex pohaiensis Kowalski and Li __________ 45 Genus Paracrocidura Balsac, 1956_____________ 20 Tribe Neomyini Repenning, new name.____-_----- 45 Genus Praesorex Thomas, 1913_-_-_-__-___-_-__ 20 Genus Neomys Kaup, 1829___--------_--------- 46 Genus Scuti orex Thomas, 1913_ ________________ 21 Genus Petenyiella Kretzoi, 1956_____-_---------- 46 Genus Solisorex Thomas, 1924__________________ 21 Genus Episoriculus Eilerman and Morrison-Scott, Genus Soricella Doben-Florin, 1964.____________ 21 1951.___--__.___-------------------- 47 Genus Suncus Ehrenberg, 1832__-_---____-_____ 21 Episoriculus gibberodon (Petenyi) ___-__--- 48 Suncus sp., Meester_____________________ 22 Genus Chodsigoa Kastschenko, 1907__________-_- 48 Genus Surdisorex Thomas, 1906._______________ 22 Chodsigoa bohlini (Young)_________-___-- 50 Genus Sylvisorex Thomas, 1905_________________ 22 Genus Beremendia Kormos, 1934_____----------- 50 Crocidurinae? incertae sedis________________________ 23 Genus Nesiotites Bate, 1945.______-----_------- 51 "Limnoecus" micromorphus Doben-Florin._______ 23 Genus Nectogale Milne-Edwards, l870__-_----__- 51 "Sorex" collongensis Mein______________________ 24 Genus Soriculus Elyth, 1854._______ ____--_- 52 Genus Chimarrogale Anderson, 1877__---_-_----- 53 Crocidura?, Mein.____________________________ 24 Genus Anourosorex Milne-Edwards, 1870. _______ 53 Subfamily Limnoecinae Repenning, new name___. ____ 24 Genus Amblycoptus Kormos, 1926____----------- 54 Genus Angustidens Repenning, n. gen___________ 25 Genus Hesperosorex Hibbard, 1957__-_---------- 55 Angustidens vireti (Wilson)_______________ 25 Genus Notiosorex Baird, 1877_---------------- 55 Genus Limnoecus Stirton, 1930.________________ 26 Genus Megasorex Hibbard, 1950.________---_--- 56 Limnoecus tricuspis Stirton_____________ 26 Neomyini? incertae sedis___________-__--------- 57 Limnoecus niobrarensis Macdonald-_ ______ 27 Deinsdorfia franconia Heller._______----_------- 57 m IV CONTENTS Diagnoses and contents of subfamilies Continued Page Diagnoses and contents of subfamilies Continued Page Subfamily Allosoricinae Fejfar, 1966.__________ 57 Names of fossil genera not used in text_________ 58 "Sorex" gracilidens Viret and Zapfe._______ 57 Ancestry of the Soricidae_______________________ 58 Paleozoogeography and correlation______________ 59 Genus Allosorex Fejfar, 1966._____________ 57 Key to living and fossil genera of the Soricidae____ 63 Soricidae incertae sedis_______________________ 57 References.___________________________________ 66 Podihik kura Deraniyagala._______________ 57 Index_ _______________________________________ 71 ILLUSTRATIONS [Figs. 1-41 are drawings of the Soricidae] Page Page FIGURE 1. Taxonomically significant differences. 22. Alluvisorex chasseae- _____________________ 33 2. Domnina thompsoni. 23. Petenyia hungarica-.--------------------- 34 3. Domnina gradata. ______ 9 24. Blarinella quadraticauda __________________ 35 4. Domnina n. sp_________ 10 25. Adeloblarina berklandi-.------------------ 38 5. Trimylus compressus. 11 26. Cryptotis adamsi,.---------- ------------- 39 6. Trimylus dakotensis _____ 12 27. Cryptotis parva------------------------ _ 1 40 7. Trimylus mawbyi _______ 14 28. Paracryptotis rex...---------------------- 41 8. Crocidura russu'a. ______ 16 29. Blarina brevicauda- ______________________ 43 9. Diplomesodon pulchellum- 17 30. Blarina gidleyi-------------------------- 43 10. Miosorex grivensis______ 18 31. Neomys jodiens-------------------------- 46 11. Myosorex varius. _______ 19 32. Episoriculus caudatus_____________________ 47 12. Praesorex goliath. _______ 20 33. Chodsigoa hypsibia,---------------------- 49 13. Suncus caeruleus.. ______ 22 34. Chodsigoa salenskii - ____________________ 49 14. Surdisorex norae. _______ 23 35. Beremendia fissidens______________________ 50 15. Sylvisorex lunaris. ______ 23 36. Nectogale elegans ----------------------- 51 16. Angustidens vireti. ______ 25 37. Soriculus nigrescens. _____________________ 52 17. Limnoecus tricuspis. 26 38. Chimarrogale himalayica,------------------ 53 18. Limnoecus niobrarensis_ _ 27 39. Anourosorex squamipes. __________________ 54 19. Antesorex compressus.... 30 40. Notiosorex crawfordi.--------------------- 56 20. Sorex araneus. _________ 31 41. Megasorex gigas__________________________ 56 21. Microsorex hoyi- ________ 32 42. Diagram of a phylogeny of the Soricidae ___ 61 SUBFAMILIES AND GENERA OF THE SORICIDAE By CHARLES A. KEPENNING ABSTRACT largely on the basis of masticatory modifications; this basis of The shrews constitute a distinct and uniform but phylo- separation is supplemented by characters in the teeth. The genetically diverse family in which five subfamilies, one sub­ tribe Soricini contains at least 3 extinct genera, about 30 ex­ divided into three tribes, can be recognized by consistent mor­ tinct species, and 4 living genera. It is characterized by lit­ phologic differences. These differences are traceable back tle modification of its mandibular articulation or teeth and by a prominent entoconid crest on lf±. The tribe Blarinini con­ through the late and middle Tertiary shrews and point to a hypothetical common ancestor. The trends of the morphologic tains at least 4 extinct genera, 10 extinct species, and 2 living change within the subfamilies rather clearly indicate what this genera. It is characterized by slight to great modification
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    Mammal Study 30: S19–S24 (2005) © the Mammalogical Society of Japan An evolutionary view on the Japanese talpids based on nucleotide sequences Akio Shinohara1,*, Kevin L. Campbell2 and Hitoshi Suzuki3 1 Department of Bio-resources, Division of Biotechnology, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan 2 Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada 3 Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan Abstract. Japanese talpid moles exhibit a remarkable degree of species richness and geographic complexity, and as such, have attracted much research interest by morphologists, cytogeneticists, and molecular phylogeneticists. However, a consensus hypothesis pertaining to the evolutionary history and biogeography of this group remains elusive. Recent phylogenetic studies utilizing nucleotide sequences have provided reasonably consistent branching patterns for Japanese talpids, but have generally suffered from a lack of closely related South-East Asian species for sound biogeographic interpretations. As an initial step in achieving this goal, we constructed phylogenetic trees using publicly accessible mitochondrial and nuclear sequences from seven Japanese taxa, and those of related insular and continental species for which nucleotide data is available. The resultant trees support the view that four lineages (Euroscaptor mizura, Mogera tokuade species group [M. tokudae and M. etigo], M. imaizumii, and M. wogura) migrated separately, and in this order, from the continental Asian mainland to Japan. The close relationship of M. tokudae and M. etigo suggests these lineages diverged recently through a vicariant event between Sado Island and Echigo plain. The origin of the two endemic lineages of Japanese shrew-moles, Urotrichus talpoides and Dymecodon pilirostris, remains ambiguous.
  • Multiannual Dynamics of Shrew (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae) Communities in the Republic of Moldova

    Multiannual Dynamics of Shrew (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae) Communities in the Republic of Moldova

    Muzeul Olteniei Craiova. Oltenia. Studii úi comunicări. ùtiinĠele Naturii. Tom. 27, No. 2/2011 ISSN 1454-6914 MULTIANNUAL DYNAMICS OF SHREW (MAMMALIA, SORICOMORPHA, SORICIDAE) COMMUNITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA NISTREANU Victoria Abstract. The paper is based on the existing bibliographical data, on the collection of vertebrate animals of the Institute of Zoology of AùM and on personal studies performed in the last years on the whole territory of Moldova. During the last 50 years considerable modification of shrew communities in various types of ecosystems on the whole territory of Moldova were registered. The most well adapted species is the common shrew, being dominant in the majority of the studied periods. The bicolour shrew, which was a rare, endangered species, introduced in the Red Book of Moldova, 2nd edition, became one of the most common among shrews in the last few years, while the Mediterranean water shrew that was one of the most abundant in the past century, at present became very rare, because of the pollution and transformation of wet and water habitats. The pygmy shrew is wide spread in various types of ecosystems, but its abundance is always below 25%. The lesser shrew is the most synanthropic species among shrews, its frequency in urban and rural area reaching 80%. The shrew species are good ecological indicators. Further measures on the protection of natural and water habitats must be taken. Keywords: shrew, dynamics, natural and anthropogenic ecosystems. Rezumat. Dinamica multianuală a comunităĠilor de chiĠcani (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae) în Republica Moldova. Articolul are la bază datele bibliografice existente, colecĠia de vertebrate terestre a Institutului de Zooogie al AùM úi cercetările personale ale autorului efectuate pe tot teritoriul Moldovei în ultimii ani.