Biology:Rzebikia

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Short description: Extinct genus of mole

Rzebikia
Temporal range: Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Scientific classification e
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Chordata
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Mammalia
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Kotsakis & Piras, 2016
Type species
Rzebikia polonicus
Skoczeń, 1980
Species
  • R. polonica
  • R. skoczeni

Rzebikia is an extinct genus of mole from the Plio-Pleistocene of Poland . It is closely related to the American shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii) and had formerly been placed in the same genus.

Taxonomy

Two species are assigned to this genus, though both were originally described as belonging to the genus Neurotrichus. Rzebikia polonica and Rzebikia skoczeni. R. polonica was described in 1980 while R. skoczeni was described in 2004, originally under the name Neurotrichus minor, though it was found to be preoccupied by a subspecies of American shrew-mole.[1] In 2014, the two species were moved out of Neurotrichus into their current genus.[2]

References

  1. Zijlstra, Jelle S. (2010). "Neurotrichus skoczeni, new name for Neurotrichus minor Skoczen, 1993, preoccupied". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (6): 1903. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521606. Bibcode2010JVPal..30.1903Z. 
  2. Sansalone, G. (2014). "New Systematic Insights about Plio-Pleistocene Moles from Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (1): 221–229. doi:10.4202/app.00116.2014. 

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