Crocidura newmarki

Stanley, Hutterer, Giarla, & Esselstyn, 2015

Newmark'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

Authority citation

Stanley, W.T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T.C. and Esselstyn, J.A. 2015-05. Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the _Crocidura monax_ (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(1):185-215.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12230

Original name as described

Crocidura newmarki

Other common names

Newmark's Shrew

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:208439

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Tanzania, Arusha Region, Arumeru District, Mt Meru, Arusha National Park, near Saddle Hut, 3.21609°S, 36.76897°E, 3600 m."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Tanzania

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Stanley, W. T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T. C., & Esselstyn, J. A. (2015). Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the Crocidura monax (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174(1), 185-215.

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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