Condylura cristata

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Star-nosed Mole

Close-up of head showing nasal rays. Formerly Soricomorpha.
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Location:USA, NY, Oswego Co., OswegoDate taken:Jan 1, 1981Description : Close-up of head showing nasal rays. Formerly Soricomorpha.

Distribution :

Georgia and NW South Carolina (USA) to Nova Scotia and Labrador (Canada); Great Lakes region to SE Manitoba.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 649

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Superfamily : Talpoidea
Family : Talpidae
Subfamily : Talpinae
Tribe : Condylurini
Genus : Condylura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Linnaeus, C. 1758-01-01. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 823 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25033864

Original name as described

Sorex cristatus

Type locality

"Pennsylvania, " USA.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Canada · United States

Subregion distribution

USA(ND, MN, WI, MI, IN, OH, KY, ME, NH, VT, NY, RI, CT, MA, NJ, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV, TN, NC, SC, GA, FL)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004300

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.

Total: 24 names and synonyms.

Sorex cristatus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

cristata

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

53

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25033864

Authority publication

Stockholm

Name usages

  1. Linnaeus (1758:53, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25033864) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57429)
  2. Linnaeus (1766:73, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946269) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38438)
  3. Boddaert (1772:51, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43563423) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67754)
  4. Erxleben (1777:121, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15872918) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36060)
  5. Leske (1779:155) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69307)
  6. Borowski (1780:91, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28347049) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67757)
  7. Zimmermann (1783:178) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69242)
  8. Boddaert (1785:124, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28230088) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35384)
  9. Gmelin (1788:112, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751332) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35943)
  10. Wolf (1796:334) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72410)
  11. Turton (1802:70, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25772926) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69249)
  12. Goldfuss (1809:202, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498036) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)
  13. Illiger (1811:126, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48453831) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36105)
  14. Griffith (1822:286, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016589) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)

Talpa Canadensis

(De la Faille, 1769)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

canadensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

40

Authority publication

La Rochelle

Talpa cristata

(Kerr, 1792)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

cristata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

201

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664225

Authority publication

Edinburgh

Name usages

  1. Kerr (1792:201, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664225) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36283)
  2. Cuvier (1797:111, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637193) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38531)
  3. Lacépède (1799:8) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/62452)
  4. Daudin (1802:158, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42033408) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64044)
  5. Treviranus (1803:176, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11028204) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41587)
  6. Fischer (1813:440, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29109551) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/49925)
  7. Gray (1821:301) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9308)
  8. Blainville (1838:740, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27514349) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68639)
  9. Blainville (1840:111, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57991375) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37124)

Sorex radiatus

(G. K. Shaw, 1800)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

radiata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

531

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632675

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Talpa Radiata

(G. K. Shaw, 1800)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

radiata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Authority page

523

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632661

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Shaw (1800:523, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632661) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37617)
  2. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Scalopus cristatus

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

cristata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

77

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)

Scalops cristatus

(G. Fischer, 1814)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

cristata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

x

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130071

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1814:x, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130071) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/12226)
  2. Muirhead (1819:411) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)

Condylura cristata

Ranzani, 1820

Family

Talpidae

Root name

cristata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

230

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27807810

Authority publication

Bologna

Name usages

  1. Ranzani (1820:230, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27807810) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69425)
  2. Desmarest (1821:157, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523921) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  3. Godman (1825:109, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24657155) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68830)
  4. Godman (1826:100, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49165386) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67289)
  5. Lesson (1827:126, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207594) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  6. Fischer (1829:247) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  7. Smith (1842:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  8. Lesson (1842:87) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  9. De Kay (1842:12, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2003467) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36849)
  10. Gistel (1848:261, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25781144) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69572)
  11. Chenu (1852:124, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14470731) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69491)
  12. Baird (1857:71, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58487623) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20633)
  13. Coues (1877:634, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31646340) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65725)
  14. Brayton (1882:176) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/71942)
  15. Dobson (1883:131) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61620)
  16. True (1885:607, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306401) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
  17. Trouessart (1897:210, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40404890) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59283)
  18. Trouessart (1904:152, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422981) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  19. Jackson (1915:86, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45378216) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15652)
  20. Harper (1927:268) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67783)
  21. Necker & Hatfield (1941:42) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69510)
  22. Corbet & Hill (1980:34) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  23. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:102) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  24. Corbet & Hill (1991:39) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  25. Hutterer (1993:124) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  26. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  27. Bradley, Ammerman, Baker, Bradley, Cook, Dowler, Jones, Schmidly, Stangl, Van Den Bussche & Würsig (2014:10, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57785988) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19157)
  28. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #41458) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  29. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:603) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  30. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #41458) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  31. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004300) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  32. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41458/115187740) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Talpasorex cristata

(H. R. Schinz, 1821)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

cristata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

191

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528948

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Schinz (1821:191, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528948) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)

Astromycter prasinats

(Haig, 1825)

Family

Talpidae

Root name

prasinats

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

2

Authority publication

City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser

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