Crocidura fischeri Pagenstecher, 1885

Turni, Hendrik, Hutterer, Rainer & Asher, Robert, 2007, Type specimens of “ insectivoran ” mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1470, pp. 1-33 : 14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.273750

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6250286

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E48793-A14C-047F-BBC1-6311FAF16BA2

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scientific name

Crocidura fischeri Pagenstecher, 1885
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Crocidura fischeri Pagenstecher, 1885 View in CoL

Pagenstecher, A. (1885) Die von Dr. G.A. Fischer auf der Reise in das Massai-Land gesammelten Sãugethiere. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 2: 34 [31–46].

Valid name: Crocidura fischeri Pagenstecher, 1885

Holotype: ZMB 98251, male, mounted skin (with a skull imitation inside), skull apparently lost. Collected by G.A. Fischer from “Nguruman, Massai-Land” [ Kenya] in 1883.

Comments: The type, formerly in the Hamburg Museum, was believed to be lost (Heim de Balsac & Meester 1977) but was rediscovered in the Berlin collection in 1983 (Hutterer 1986). The currently-missing skull had been figured by Pagenstecher (1885); how the skin was transferred to Berlin remains unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura

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