Piebald shrew
| Piebald Shrew[1] | |
|---|---|
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| Piebald shrew in Moscow Zoo | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Soricomorpha |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Subfamily: | Crocidurinae |
| Genus: | Diplomesodon Brandt, 1852 |
| Species: | D. pulchellum |
| Binomial name | |
| Diplomesodon pulchellum (Lichtenstein, 1823) | |
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| Piebald Shrew range | |
The Piebald Shrew (Diplomesodon pulchellum) is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to 2–23⁄4 inches in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. It is the only extant member of the genus Diplomesodon. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: Diplomesodon sonnerati (Sonnerat's Shrew).[3]
References
- ↑ Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 255–256. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Insectivore Specialist Group (1996). Diplomesodon pulchellum. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
- ↑ Cheke, A. (2011). "Sonnerat's shrew - evidence for a new and possibly extinct species in an early 19th century manuscript (Mammalia: Soricidae).". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 108 (2): 95–97.
- Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005.