Crocidura iculisma

Mottaz, 1908

Iberian White-toothed Shrew

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Mottaz, C. 1908-04. Description de deux Musaraignes nouvelles de France occidentale. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de Genève 1(7):118-120.

Original name as described

Crocidura mimula iculisma

Other common names

Southwest European White-toothed Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1962.1249 (= Mottaz 1115)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Lignières Sonneville (Charente), France."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Portugal · Spain · France · Italy

Taxonomy notes

split from C. guildenstaedtii (previously under C. suaveolens)

Taxonomy notes citation

Gritsyshin, V.A., Lisenkova, A.A., Speranskaya, A.S., Artyushin, I.V., Sheftel, B.I., Лебедев, В.С. and Bannikova, A.A. 2023. Multilocus analysis of phylogenetic relationships in the _Crocidura suaveolens_ sensu lato species complex: A comparison with mitochondrial data. Doklady Biological Sciences 509(1):128-134. doi:10.1134/S0012496623700308 · Domínguez‐García, Á. C., Álvarez‐Vena, A., Laplana, C., Sevilla, P., Román, J., Bisbal‐Chinesta, J. F., ... & Benítez De Lugo Enrich, L. (2024). Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white‐toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record. Mammal Review. · Mahmoudi, A., Shad, H. H., & Kryštufek, B. (2025). White-toothed shrew (genus Crocidura) diversity in Iran: Molecular evidence and taxonomic implications. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 314, 149-158.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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