Crocidura armenica

Gureev in Gromov, Gureev, Novikov, Sokolov, Strelkov, & Chapskiy, 1963

Armenian White-toothed Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Crocidurinae
Genus : Crocidura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gromov, I.M., Gureev, A.A., Novikov, G.A., Sokolov, I.I., Strelkov, P.P. and Chapskiy, K.K. 1963. Млекопитающие фауны СССР. Часть 1. Издательство Академии наук СССР, Moscow, 638 pp.

Original name as described

Crocidura armenica

Other common names

Armenian Shrew

Type material

ZIN S. 45277

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

14 km down river from Garni, Armenia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Azerbaijan · Armenia?

Taxonomy notes

tentatively retained as valid here, although the species is considered a synonym of C. arispa (which itself may be a synonym of C. serezkyensis) in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World Volume 8 based on the following reason; "present evidence this taxon cannot be considered a valid species because the dentition is abnormal in the holotype and the skull is broken in the paratype"; recent research has suggested that the species may be synonymous with C. serezkyensis or C. arispa but further research is needed

Taxonomy notes citation

Wilson D.E. & Mittermeier R.A. 2018. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 8. Insectivores, Colugos, and Sloths. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. · Voyta, L. L., Petrova, T. V., Panitsina, V. A., Bodrov, S. Y., & Abramson, N. I. Complete mitochondrial genomes of Asian endemic white-toothed shrews: Crocidura armenica and C. serezkyensis (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae). · Stakheev, V.V., Lissovsky, A.A. and Obolenskaya, E.V. 2024. The first record of the white-toothed rock shrew from "pergrisea" complex (Mammalia: Soricidae: Crocidura) on the territory of Russian Federation. Russian Journal of Theriology 23(1):25-30. · Voyta, L. L., Petrova, T. V., Panitsina, V. A., Bodrov, S. Y., Winkler, V., Kryuchkova, L. Y., & Abramson, N. I. (2024). A Cybertaxonomic Revision of the “Crocidura pergrisea” Species Complex with a Special Focus on Endemic Rocky Shrews: Crocidura armenica and Crocidura arispa (Soricidae). Biology, 13(6), 448.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003851

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.

Crocidura armenica

Gureev in Gromov, Gureev, Novikov, Sokolov, Strelkov, & Chapskiy, 1963

Family

Soricidae

Root name

armenica

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 45277

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

118

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

  1. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:70) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  2. Hutterer (1993:81) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5596) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5596) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003851) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5596/115076665) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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