Sorex cylindricauda, Milne-Edwards, 1872
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Greater Striped Shrew
Sorex cylindricauda View in CoL
French: Musaraigne du Sichuan / German: Rickenstreifen-Spitzmaus / Spanish: Musarafia listada mayor
Other common names: Greater Stripe-backed Shrew, Stripe-backed Shrew
Taxonomy. Sorex cylindricauda Milne-Edwards View in CoL in David, 1872,
Moupin (= Baoxing) , Sichuan, China.
Sorex cylindricauda is closely related to but distinct from S. bedfordiae . It used to include a subspecies from Nepal, S. cylindricauda nepalensis, that has been reassigned into S. bedfordiae . Monotypic.
Distribution. Known from Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan, China; distribution should be treated with caution because of its similarity with S. bedfordiae . Only voucher specimens from N & W Sichuan have been examined. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 54-77 mm, tail 55-62 mm, hindfoot 12-5-16 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. Condylo-incisive length averages 17-5 mm, and tooth row averages 8:75 mm. The Greater Striped Shrew is medium-sized, morphologically similar to the Lesser Striped Shrew ( S. bedfordiae ) but larger and with relatively longertail. Dorsum is cinnamon-brown, and venter is dark gray-brown. Conspicuous dark stripe runs down spine from neck to rump. Tail is equal to head-body length or slightly shorter. There are five upper unicuspids; first, second, and third upper unicuspids are about equal in size; and fourth and fifth decrease in size gradually. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 30 and FN = 50.
Habitat. Broadleaf and coniferous forests and alpine rhododendron habitats at elevations of¢.3000 m. The Greater Striped Shrew is syntopically distributed with the Lesser Striped Shrew in the western Sichuan mountains.
Food and Feeding. The Greater Striped Shrew is insectivorous.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. Greater Striped Shrews are terrestrial.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Unlike the Lesser Striped Shrew, the Greater Striped Shrew has a much smaller and disjunct distribution, and it might be moresensitive to climate change and resulting habitat loss. Nevertheless,it occurs in many protected areas, so its overall population is unlikely to be declining.
Bibliography. Chen Shunde et al. (2012), Hoffmann (1987), Motokawa et al. (2009), Smith & Yan Xie (2008).
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