Taxonomic assessment of the Malayan water shrew Chimarrogale hantu Harrison, 1958 and reclassification to the genus Crossogale

MF Abd Wahab, D Pathmanathan, M Motokawa… - Mammalian …, 2020 - Springer
This study reassesses the taxonomic status of the Malayan water shrew, Chimarrogale
hantu Harrison 1958 as a distinct species and reclassifies it as the genus Crossogale …

Taxonomic study of the water shrewsChimarrogale himalayica andC. platycephala

M Motokawa, M Harada, L Apin, S Yasuma, SL Yuan… - Acta Theriologica, 2006 - Springer
We investigated karyotypes, mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences, and cranial
morphometries of the water shrews Chimarrogale himalayica (Gray, 1842) and C …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenetic relationships of the endemic Sri Lankan shrew genera: Solisorex and Feroculus

S Meegaskumbura, M Meegaskumbura… - Ceylon Journal of …, 2014 - academia.edu
Sri Lanka has a rich diversity of shrews: ten species in four genera, with two genera and five
species endemic to the island. In the current study we use complete cytochrome-b …

[PDF][PDF] PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF MALAYAN AND MALAGASY PYGMY SHREWS OF THE GENUS SUNCUS (SORICOMORPHA: SORICIDAE) …

H Omar, EAS Adamson, S Bhassu… - Raffles Bulletin of …, 2011 - academia.edu
This study used a portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene to investigate the
phylogenetic relationships of Suncus pygmy shrews and to help clarify the taxonomic status …

[HTML][HTML] A Mitochondrial Phylogeny and Biogeographical Scenario for Asiatic Water Shrews of the Genus Chimarrogale: Implications for Taxonomy and Low-Latitude …

SL Yuan, XL Jiang, ZJ Li, K He, M Harada, T Oshida… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The six species and three subspecies in the genus Chimarrogale (Soricomorpha: Soricidae)
are commonly referred to as Asiatic water shrews. The Chimarrogale are the most widely …

Systematic relationships and taxonomy of Suncus montanus and S. murinus from Sri Lanka

S Meegaskumbura, M Meegaskumbura… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2010 - Elsevier
Here we use nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, combined with morphometric
analyses, to clarify the systematic relationships and taxonomy of two complex species of …

[PDF][PDF] A Taxonomic Evaluation of the Shrew Suncus montanus (Soricidae: Crocidurinae) of Sri Lanka and India

S Meegaskumbura, C Schneider - Ceylon Journal of Science …, 2009 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT The Sri Lankan and Indian populations of the mountain shrew Suncus
montanus have hitherto been recognized as a single species, due to their similarity in size …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenetic position of Suncus fellowesgordoni with pigmy shrews from Madagascar and Southeast Asia inferred from cytochrome-b

S Meegaskumbura… - Ceylon Journal of …, 2012 - account.cjsbs.sljol.info
This study evaluates the taxonomic and phylogenetic position of S. fellowesgordoni with S.
malayanus, S. etruscus and S.'madagascariensis'. We reconfirm that S. fellowesgordoni is a …

Biogeography of Sulawesian shrews: testing for their origin with a parametric bootstrap on molecular data

M Ruedi, M Auberson, V Savolainen - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 1998 - Elsevier
In order to identify the zoogeographic origin of shrews (genusCrocidura) living on the
oceanic island of Sulawesi, 15 taxa from Southeast Asia and 1 from Europe were examined …

Fourteen new, endemic species of shrew (genus Crocidura) from Sulawesi reveal a spectacular island radiation

JA Esselstyn, AS Achmadi, H Handika… - Bulletin of the American …, 2021 - BioOne
After nearly a decade of field inventories in which we preserved voucher specimens of the
small terrestrial mammals of Sulawesi, we combined qualitative and quantitative analyses of …