Crocidura macarthuri

St. Leger, 1934

MacArthur'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

St. Leger, J. 1934-04-30. On a new species of shrew from Merifano, East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)13(77):559-560.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933408654855

Original name as described

Crocidura macarthuri

Other common names

Macarthur's Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1933.10.6.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c10fd127-448b-4b64-9139-eeda1eb89468

Type locality

Merifano, 32 km from mouth of Tana River, Kenya.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Kenya · Somalia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003938

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 macarthuri

St. Leger, 1934

Family

Soricidae

Root name

macarthuri

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1933.10.6.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c10fd127-448b-4b64-9139-eeda1eb89468

Authority page

559

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:29) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:78) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Corbet & Hill (1991:34) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  4. Hutterer (1993:89) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  5. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  6. Happold & Happold (2013:101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #41333) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  8. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:513) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #41333) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003938) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  11. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41333/115178955) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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