Crocidura raineyi

E. Heller, 1912

Rainey'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

Heller, E. 1912-11-04. New races of insectivores, bats, and lemurs from British East Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 60(12):1-13.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8910537

Original name as described

Crocidura raineyi

Other common names

Rainey's Shrew

Type material

USNM:MAMM:181817

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a1f39e71-317f-44d3-886e-8d312b86652d

Type locality

North Creek, Mount Garguez (= Warges), Kenya.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Kenya

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003992

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 raineyi

E. Heller, 1912

Family

Soricidae

Root name

raineyi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:181817

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a1f39e71-317f-44d3-886e-8d312b86652d

Authority page

7

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8910537

Authority publication

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

Name usages

  1. Dollman (1915:510, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24256080) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19667)
  2. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  3. Happold & Happold (2013:127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5592) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:513) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5592) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003992) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5592/115076066) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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