Myosorex Gray, 1838

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 99

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Myosorex Gray, 1838 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 124 [1838].

TYPE SPECIES: Sorex varius Smuts, 1832 .

COMMENTS: Subfamily status uncertain. Repenning (1967) grouped Myosorex 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). Surdisorex and Congosorex 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 Myosorex were provided by Heim de Balsac (1967, 1968b), Heim de Balsac and Lamotte (1956), and Meester and Dippenaar (1978). The formerly listed Myosorex preussi ( 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 ( Crocidura , Sorex , Sylvisorex ), and that preussi does not represent a biological species. Species of conservation concern are listed in Nicoll and Rathbun (1990:21).

References

Heim de Balsac, H., and M. Lamotte. 1956. Evolution et phylogenie des Soricides africaines. Mammalia, 20: 140 - 167.

Heim de Balsac, H. 1966 b. Faits nouveaux concernant l'evolution cranio-dentaire des Soricines (Mammiferes Insectivores). Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, 263 D: 889 - 892.

Heim de Balsac, H. 1967. Faits nouveaux concernant les Myosorex (Soricidae) de l'Afrique orientale. Mammalia, 31: 610 - 628.

Heim de Balsac, H. 1968 b. Contribution a l'etude des Soricidae de Fernando Po et du Cameroun. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 19: 15 - 42.

Hollister, N. 1918. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part I. Insectivora, Chiroptera, and Carnivora. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99: 1 - 194, 55 pls.

Matschie, P. 1893. Ueber anscheinend neue Afrikanische saugethiere (Leimacomys g. n.). Sitzungs-berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 4: 107 - 109.

Meester, J. 1953. The genera of African shrews. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 22: 205 - 214.

Meester, J. 1954. On the status of the shrew, genus Myosorex. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 12, 7: 947 - 950.

Meester, J., and N. J. Dippenaar. 1978. A new species of Myosorex from Knysna, South Africa (Mammalia: Soricidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 31: 29 - 42.

Nicoll, M. E., and G. B. Rathbun. 1990. African Insectivora and elephant-shrews. An action plan for their conservation. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 53 pp.

Repenning, C. A. 1967. Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 565: 1 - 74.

Reumer, J. W. F. 1987. Redefinition of the Soricidae and the Heterosoricidae (Insectivora, Mammalia), with the description of the Crocidosoricinae, a new subfamily of Soricidae. Revue de Paleobiologie, 6: 189 - 192.

Thomas, O. 1906 b. Two new genera of small mammals discovered by Mrs. Holms-Tarn in British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 18: 222 - 226.