Crocidura baileyi

Osgood, 1936

Bailey's 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

Osgood, W.H. 1936-12-28. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 20(21):217-256.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2778319

Original name as described

Crocidura baileyi

Other common names

Bailey's Shrew · Simien Shrew

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:28217

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=820ff30e-8ffa-4505-9170-08fb99c9befa

Type locality

Ras Dashan (= Mount Geech), Simien Mountains, Ethiopia.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Ethiopia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003854

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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 baileyi

Osgood, 1936

Family

Soricidae

Root name

baileyi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:28217

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=820ff30e-8ffa-4505-9170-08fb99c9befa

Authority page

225

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2778319

Authority publication

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:28) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:70) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  4. Happold & Happold (2013:59) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5559) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:510) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5559) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003854) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5559/115074097) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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