Biology:Ryukyu shrew
| Ryukyu shrew | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Crocidura |
| Species: | C. orii
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| Binomial name | |
| Crocidura orii Kuroda, 1924[2]
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| Ryukyu Shrew range | |
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Crocidura dsinezumi orii[2] (protonym) | |
The Ryukyu shrew (Crocidura orii), also known as Orii's shrew,[1] is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the Amami Islands of Japan . It is threatened by habitat loss.
Taxonomy
Orii's shrew was first described, as a subspecies of the Dsinezumi shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi orii), by Kuroda Nagamichi in 1924; he named it after his collector, Orii Hyōjirō, who had provided the skin and skull of a single male from Amami Ōshima.[2]:3 This type specimen, damaged during the initial trapping,[2]:3 was destroyed by fire in 1945.[4]:22 In their 1951 checklist, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott listed the shrew instead as a subspecies of the Greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula orii).[3]:81 In 1961, after the recovery of a second individual from the stomach of a hime habu or Ryukyu Island pit viper (Ovophis okinavensis), Imaizumi Yoshinori elevated the shrew to species rank, based on morphological comparison with other species of Crocidura.[4] In 1998, after the study of five further specimens from Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima, Motokawa Masaharu [ja] confirmed this taxonomic treatment.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Laginha Pinto Correia, D. (2016). "Crocidura orii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T5590A22302169. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T5590A22302169.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5590/22302169. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kuroda, N. (1924). On new mammals from the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity. Tokyo: Published by the author. pp. 1–14. https://adeac.jp/tomakomai-lib/catalog/mp272020-100010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ellerman, J.R.; Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. (1951). Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History). https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722382.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Imaizumi, Y. (1961). Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan 2 (1): 17–22. doi:10.11238/jmammsocjapan1952.2.17.
- ↑ Motokawa, M. (1998). "Reevaluation of the Orii's shrew, Crocidura dsinezumi orii Kuroda, 1924 (Insectivora, Soricidae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan". Mammalia 62 (2): 249–267. doi:10.1515/mamm.1998.62.2.259.
Wikidata ☰ Q305903 entry
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