Crocidura serezkyensis

Laptev, 1929

Serezkaya 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

Opred. Mlekopitay. Sredney Asyy, Tashkent, vol. 1, 16

Original name as described

Crocidura serezkyensis

Other common names

Lesser Rock Shrew · Lesser Rock White-toothed Shrew · Jackass White-toothed Shrew · Jackass Shrew

Type locality

Lake Sarezskoye, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Tajikistan · Turkmenistan

Taxonomy notes

may include C. armenica and C. arispa, but further research is needed to determine their phylogenetic relationships

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

Least Concern

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