Crocidura miya, Phillips, 1929

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Soricidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 332-551 : 483

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Crocidura miya
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249. View Plate 20: Soricidae

Sri Lankan White-toothed Shrew

Crocidura miya View in CoL

French: Crocidure du Sri Lanka / German: Sri-Lanka-WeiRzahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Sri Lanka

Other common names: Sri Lankan Long-tailed Shrew

Taxonomy. Crocidura miya View in CoL W. W. A. Phil- lips, 1929,

“ Moolgama village , Nilambe district of the Kandyan Hills, near Galaha, Central Province, Ceylon [ Sri Lanka] ¢. 3000 feet [= 915 m].”

In 2005, R. Hutterer commented that C. miya 1s a very distinctive species resembling C. elongata from Sulawesi or African C. dolichura . This is a sister species to C. hikmiya, distinct from C. horsfieldii , which also occurs in Sri Lanka. According to S.

Meegaskumbura and colleagues in 2007, C. miya and C. hikmiya do not appear to occur in sympatry and the records of C. miya at Sinharaja Forest, Sabaragamuwa Province in south-western Sri Lanka by M. R. Wijesinghe and M. de L. Brooke in 2005 are believed to refer to the subsequently described C. hikmiya. Monotypic.

Distribution. Recorded from several localities in the highlands of Central Province and the Uva Highlands of Uva Province, Sri Lanka. View Figure

Descriptive notes. Head-body 65-83 mm, tail 88-100 mm, ear 6-9 mm, hindfoot 15-17 mm; weight 7-7-7-9 g. Pelage of the Sri Lankan White-toothed Shrew is soft; dorsally brown with an admixture of silver, hairs with gray bases and brown or silver tips; ventral pelage gray, hairs with dark gray bases and silvery tips, slightly rufescent. Tail slender (110-155% of head-body length), with a few long bristle hairs near the base. Hindfeet moderately long and slender.

Habitat. Confined to high elevations, at 900-1983 m, in tropical montane forest and grasslands.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. Sri Lankan White-toothed Shrews are terrestrial. They are assumed to be nocturnal and crepuscular but may be active intermittently during the day.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Endangered on The IUCN Red List because its area of occupancy is less than 500 km? its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality ofits habitat. The population is decreasing. The major threats to the species are deforestation and forestfires.

Bibliography. Corbet & Hill (1992), Goonatilake & Molur (2008), Hutterer (2005b), Meegaskumbura et al. (2007), Menike et al. (2012), Molur et al. (2005), Phillips (1929, 1980), Wijesinghe & Brooke (2005), Yapa & Ratnavira (2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura

Loc

Crocidura miya

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson 2018
2018
Loc

Crocidura miya

Phillips 1929
1929
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