Biology:Crocidura kornfeldi

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Short description: Extinct species of mammal

Crocidura kornfeldi
Temporal range: Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Crocidura
Species:
C. kornfeldi
Binomial name
Crocidura kornfeldi
Kormos, 1934

Crocidura kornfeldi is an extinct species of shrew that inhabited central and southern Europe between the Pliocene and Pleistocene. It is the first species of the widespread, extremely speciose genus Crocidura known with certainty to have colonized Europe. It is a widespread, well-documented species, with fossils known from Spain , Italy, Greece, Hungary, Romania, and Crimea.[1][2][3]

C. kornfeldi went extinct early in the Pleistocene, possibly due to competition with newly-arriving species such as the modern greater white-toothed shrew (C. russula), lesser white-toothed shrew (C. suaveolens), and bicolored shrew (C. leucodon). However, the extant Cretan shrew (C. zimmermanni) bears a very close morphological similarity to C. kornfeldi, and for this reason may be a relict descendant of C. kornfeldi.[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q113365369 entry