Podogymnura truei

Mearns, 1905

Mount Apo Gymnure

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Erinaceidae
Subfamily : Galericinae
Genus : Podogymnura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Mearns, E.A. 1905-05-13. Descriptions of new genera and species of mammals from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28:425-460.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15393053

Original name as described

Podogymnura truei

Other common names

Long-footed Woodshrew · Mindanao Moonrat · Mindanao Gymnure · Mindanao Wood-shrew · Philippine Wood Shrew

Type material

USNM:MAMM:125286

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/387acaa15-4f60-4691-955a-ddfc97e8ec37

Type locality

"Mount Apo at 6,000 feet [= 1829 m] altitude, southern Mindanao, Philippine Islands." Interpreted by D. R. Frost and colleagues in 1991 as "6°59'N, 125°16'E."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Philippines

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. minima

Taxonomy notes citation

Balete, D. S., Heaney, L. R., Rickart, E. A., Quidlat, R. S., Rowsey, D. M., & Olson, L. E. (2023). A re-assessment of diversity among Philippine gymnures (Mammalia: Erinaceidae: Podogymnura), with a new species from eastern Mindanao. Zootaxa, 5228(3), 244-266.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003829

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Podogymnura truei

Mearns, 1905

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

truei

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:125286

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/387acaa15-4f60-4691-955a-ddfc97e8ec37

Authority page

437

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15393053

Authority publication

Proceedings of the United States National Museum

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:24) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:67) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)
  4. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:360) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #17828) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:329) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #17828) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Balete, Heaney, Rickart, Quidlat, Rowsey & Olson (2023:255) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59397)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003829) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17828/22326078) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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