Neurotrichus

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Neurotrichus
AmericanShrewMole23.jpg
Shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Tribe: Neurotrichini
Genus: Neurotrichus
Günther, 1880
Type species
Urotrichus gibbsii
Baird, 1858
Species
  • Neurotrichus gibbsii
  • †?

Neurotrichus is a genus of shrew-like moles. It is classified, together with the fossil genus , in the tribe Neurotrichini of the subfamily Talpinae. The only living species is the American shrew-mole (N. gibbsii) of the northwestern United States and British Columbia.[1] A fossil species, from the Hemphillian of Oregon, was placed in the genus in 1968, but this animal is now thought to be more closely related to the Chinese fossil genus .

Two fossil species from the Plio-Pleistocene of Poland known as Neurotrichus polonicus[2] and Neurotrichus skoczeni[3] were placed in a new genus, Rzebikia.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Hutterer, 2005
  2. ^ Carraway and Verts, 1991, p. 2
  3. ^ Zijlstra, 2010
  4. ^ 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.

Literature cited[]

  • Carraway, L.N. and Verts, B.J. 1991. Neurotrichus gibbsii.[dead link] Mammalian Species 387:1–7.
  • Hutterer, R. 2005. Order Soricomorpha. Pp. 220–311 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
  • Zijlstra, J.S. 2010. Neurotrichus skoczeni, new name for Neurotrichus minor Skoczen, 1993, preoccupied. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1903.
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