Myosorex meesteri

P. J. Taylor, T. C. Kearney, Kerbis Peterhans, Baxter, & Willows-Munro, 2013

Meester's Mouse Shrew

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Taylor, P.J., Kearney, T.C., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Baxter, R.M. and Willows-Munro, S. 2013-12. Cryptic diversity in forest shrews of the genus Myosorex from southern Africa, with the description of a new species and comments on _Myosorex tenuis_. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169(4):881-902.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12083

Original name as described

Myosorex meesteri

Other common names

Meester's Forest Shrew

Type material

DNSM 4693

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Chingamwe Estates, 15 km south-east of Juliasdale, Inyanga Mountains, eastern Zimbabwe (18.4625°S, 32.753°E).

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mozambique · Zimbabwe

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Taylor, P. J., Kearney, T. C., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Baxter, R. M., & Willows-Munro, S. (2013). Cryptic diversity in forest shrews of the genus Myosorex from southern Africa, with the description of a new species and comments on Myosorex tenuis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169(4), 881-902.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004102

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Names and synonyms

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Myosorex meesteri

P. J. Taylor, T. C. Kearney, Kerbis Peterhans, Baxter, & Willows-Munro, 2013

Family

Soricidae

Root name

meesteri

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

DNSM 4693

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

897

Authority publication

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Name usages

  1. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #100000228) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  2. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:546) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #100000228) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004102) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  5. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/110661822/110662102) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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