Crocidura wimmeri

Heim de Balsac & Aellen, 1958

Wimmer'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

Heim de Balsac, H. and Aellen, V. 1958. Les Soricidae de basse Côte d'Ivoire. Revue suisse de Zoologie 65:921-956.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40775718

Original name as described

Crocidura wimmeri

Other common names

Wimmer's Shrew

Type material

MHNG 949.31

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Adiopodoumé, southern Côte d'Ivoire.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cote d'Ivoire

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004034

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 wimmeri

Heim de Balsac & Aellen, 1958

Family

Soricidae

Root name

wimmeri

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MHNG 949.31

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

952

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40775718

Authority publication

Revue suisse de Zoologie

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:31) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:84) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  4. Happold & Happold (2013:145) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5587) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:528) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5587) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004034) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5587/22302740) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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