Sylvisorex oriundus

Hollister, 1916

Lesser Forest Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Crocidurinae
Genus : Sylvisorex

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Hollister, N. 1916-10-21. Shrews collected by the Congo Expedition of the American Museum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(35):663-680.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1067

Original name as described

Sylvisorex oriundus

Other common names

Mountain Shrew

Type material

AMNH M-48554

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-48554

Type locality

"Medje, Nava River, Belgian Congo [= DR Congo]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Democratic Republic of the Congo

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004084

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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.

Sylvisorex oriundus

Hollister, 1916

Family

Soricidae

Root name

oriundus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-48554

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-48554

Authority page

672

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  2. Happold & Happold (2013:195) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #21222) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:468) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #21222) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004084) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21222/115161223) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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