Crocidura viaria

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)

Savanna Path 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

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1831-03-19. Mammifères. Pp. 1–160 in Bélanger, C. 1835. Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le Nord de l'Europe, les Provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Arménie et la Perse, suivi de Détails topographiques, statistiques et autres sur le Pégou, les Iles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap de Bonne-Espérance et Sainte-Hélène, pendant les Années 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Zoologie. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 535 pp.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435028294999?urlappend=%3Bseq=171%3Bownerid=13510798903175862-187

Original name as described

Sorex viarius

Other common names

Savanna Path Shrew

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-500

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-500

Type locality

"Senegal." Restricted by R. Hutterer in 1984 to the region between Dakar and Saint-Louis (= Dakar), Senegal.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Afrotropic

Country distribution

Morocco · Mauritania · Senegal · Gambia · Mali · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo? · Benin? · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Sudan · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Kenya · Tanzania

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004027

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.

Sorex viarius

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)

Family

Soricidae

Root name

viaria

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-500

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-500

Authority page

127

Authority page URI

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435028294999?urlappend=%3Bseq=171%3Bownerid=13510798903175862-187

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1831:127, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435028294999?urlappend=%3Bseq=171%3Bownerid=13510798903175862-187) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67807)

Crocidura viaria

A. T. de Rochebrune, 1883

Family

Soricidae

Root name

viaria

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

103

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26187556

Authority publication

Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux

Name usages

  1. Rochebrune (1883:103, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26187556) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/43667)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:83) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Corbet & Hill (1991:35) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  4. Hutterer (1993:97) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  5. Yalden, Largen, Kock & Hillman (1996:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36072)
  6. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  7. Happold & Happold (2013:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #41364) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  9. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:534) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #41364) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  11. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004027) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  12. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41364/115181785) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Crocidura Hindei

O. Thomas, 1904

Family

Soricidae

Root name

hindei

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1901.8.7.2

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/6e2d29cf-828c-42d4-a78d-7fd332f67cd4

Authority page

237

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27733964

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Dollman (1915:512, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24256082) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19667)
  2. Allen & Loveridge (1927:416) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67782)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Crocidura suahelae

E. Heller, 1912

Family

Soricidae

Root name

suahelae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:181815

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fb36578c-6bb9-4450-b07f-8c56a0cac09d

Authority page

6

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8910536

Authority publication

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

Name usages

  1. Dollman (1915:513, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24256083) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19667)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:30) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:82) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Crocidura bolivari

Morales Agacino, 1934

Family

Soricidae

Root name

bolivari

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

93

Authority publication

Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural

Name usages

  1. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:70, 71) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  2. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Crocidura bolivari tamrinensis

I. E. Vesmanis & A. Vesmanis, 1980

Family

Soricidae

Root name

tamrinensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:476091

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e4253b8a-9645-4195-9d30-7a6d35b6ce2e

Authority page

41

Authority publication

Zoologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

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