Parablarinella griselda

(O. Thomas, 1912)

Chinese Short-tailed Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Soricinae
Tribe : Blarinellini
Genus : Parablarinella

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1912-10-01. On a collection of small mammals from the Tsin-ling Mountains, Central China, presented to Mr. G. Fenwick Owen to the National Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)10(58):395-403.

Original name as described

Blarinella griselda

Other common names

Indochinese Short-tailed Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1912.8.5.23

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"42 miles [= 68 km] S.E. of Tao-chou [Gansu, northwestern China]. 10,000' [= 3048 m]."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

moved to Blarinella to Pantherina, which is preoccupied by a genus of beetles; the name Parablarinella was then described as a replacement name for Pantherina

Taxonomy notes citation

He, K., Chen, X., Chen, P., He, S. W., Cheng, F., Jiang, X. L., & Campbell, K. L. (2018). A new genus of Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Soricidae, Eulipotyphla) based on molecular and morphological comparisons. Zoological research, 39(5), 321. · Bannikova, A. A., Jenkins, P. D., Solovyeva, E. N., Pavlova, S. V., Demidova, T. B., Simanovsky, S. A., ... & Abramov, A. V. (2019). Who are you, Griselda? A replacement name for a new genus of the Asiatic short-tailed shrews (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae): molecular and morphological analyses with the discussion of tribal affinities. ZooKeys, 888, 133-158.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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