Myosorex

Myosorex

Taxonomía
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Mammalia
Infraclase: Placentalia
Superorden: Laurasiatheria
Orden: Eulipotyphla
Familia: Soricidae
Género: Myosorex
Gray, 1838
Especie tipo
Sorex varius
Smuts, 1832
Especies

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Myosorex es un género de musarañas de la familia Soricidae. Es originario de África.

Especies

Se reconocen las siguientes especies:

Referencias

  1. a b Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Hutterer, R., Mwanga, J., Ndara, B., Davenport, L., Karhagomba, I.B. & Udelhoven, J. 2010: African shrews endemic to the Albertine Rift: two new species of Myosorex (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of East African Natural History, 99(2): 103-128. doi: 10.2982/028.099.0201
  2. Peterhans, J. C. K.; Hutterer, R.; Kaliba, P.; Mazibuko, L. (2008). First Record Of Myosorex (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Malawi With Description as a New Species, Myosorex gnoskei. Journal of East African Natural History 97 (1): 19 - 32.
  3. Kerbis Peterhans, Julian C., Michael H. Huhndorf, Andrew J. Plumptre, Rainer Hutterer, Prince Kaleme & Benjamin Ndara. 2013. Mammals, other than bats, from the Misotshi-Kabogo highlands (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), with the description of two new species (Mammalia: Soricidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 62 (2) pp. 203-219.
  4. Taylor, P. J., Kearney, T. C., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Baxter, R. M. and 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: 881–902. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12083
  • HUTTERER, R. Order Soricomorpha. In: WILSON, D. E.; REEDER, D. M. (Eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. v. 1, p. 220-311.