Myosorex Gray 1837

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 264

Myosorex Gray 1837

Myosorex Gray 1837 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 124.

Type Species: Sorex varius Smuts 1832

Species and subspecies: 14 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Myosorex babaulti Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

Species Myosorex blarina Thomas 1906

Species Myosorex cafer Sundevall 1846

Species Myosorex eisentrauti Heim de Balsac 1968

Species Myosorex geata Allen and Loveridge 1927

Species Myosorex kihaulei Stanley and Hutterer 2000

Species Myosorex longicaudatus Meester and Dippenaar 1978

Subspecies Myosorex longicaudatus subsp. longicaudatus Meester and Dippenaar 1978

Subspecies Myosorex longicaudatus subsp. boosmani Dippenaar 1995

Species Myosorex okuensis Heim de Balsac 1968

Species Myosorex rumpii Heim de Balsac 1968

Species Myosorex schalleri Heim de Balsac 1966

Species Myosorex sclateri Thomas and Schwann 1905

Species Myosorex tenuis Thomas and Schwann 1905

Species Myosorex varius (Smuts 1832)

Species Myosorex zinki Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

Discussion: Repenning (1967) grouped Myosorex in the Crocidurinae ; Reumer's (1987) Crocidosoricinae would fit as well. Kretzoi (1965) based the tribe Myosoricini on this genus; this name is available and used here for the subfamily. Generic status sometimes questioned; but see Meester (1954). Surdisorex and Congosorex are often included as subgenera but are treated here as full genera, following Thomas (1906 b), Hollister (1918), Meester (1953), Heim de Balsac (1966 b), Hutterer (1993 a) and Hutterer et al. (2002 b). Partial reviews of Myosorex were provided by Heim de Balsac (1967, 1968 b), Heim de Balsac and Lamotte (1956), Meester and Dippenaar (1978), and Stanley and Hutterer (2000). The formerly recognized Myosorex preussi ( Matschie, 1893) , described from "Mount Cameroun ", is based on mismatched parts of three different genera ( Crocidura , Sorex , Sylvisorex ), and does not represent a biological species ( Hutterer, 1993 a).