Notiosorex crawfordi

(Coues, 1877)

Desert Gray Shrew

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Coues, E. 1877-05-15. Precursory notes on American insectivorous mammals, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3(3):631-653.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31646337

Original name as described

Sorex (Notiosorex) crawfordi

Other common names

Crawford's Desert Shrew · Crawford's Gray Shrew · Crawford's Shrew · Desert Shrew

Type material

USNM:MAMM:2653 (= USNM:MAMM:A4437)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/399f1d82d-0f09-4a72-bb3c-7d07dda543c8

Type locality

"Fort Bliss, New Mexico, or vicinity." Restricted by L. N. Carraway in 2007 to "latitude 31.8°N, longitude 106.4°W."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States · Mexico

Subregion distribution

USA(AZ, CO,UT,NM,TX,OK,AR)

Taxonomy notes

previously included populations now attributed to N. tataticuli

Taxonomy notes citation

Camargo, I., & Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T. (2020). A new species and three subspecies of the desert shrew (Notiosorex) from the Baja California peninsula and California. Journal of Mammalogy, 101(3), 1-15.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004209

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 (Notiosorex) crawfordi

(Coues, 1877)

Family

Soricidae

Root name

crawfordi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:2653 (= USNM:MAMM:A4437)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/399f1d82d-0f09-4a72-bb3c-7d07dda543c8

Authority page

631

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31646337

Authority publication

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories

Name usages

True (1885:606, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306400) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)

Notiosorex crawfordi

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Soricidae

Root name

crawfordi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

28

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:28) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:89) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #41456) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:448) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #41456) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004209) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:7) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41456/115187458) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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