Piebald shrew

Piebald shrew
	Piebald shrew in Moscow Zoo
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Soricidae
Subfamily:	Crocidurinae
Genus:	Diplomesodon
Species:	D. pulchellum
Binomial name
	Diplomesodon pulchellum; (Lichtenstein, 1823)
	Piebald shrew range

The piebald shrew (Diplomesodon pulchellum) is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to 2–23⁄4 inches in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. It is the only extant member of the genus Diplomesodon. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: Diplomesodon sonnerati (Sonnerat's shrew). It was described again in 2018 to meet certain validity requirements of the ICZN code.^[3]

References[]

^ Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 255–256. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^ Tsytsulina, K.; Formozov, N. & Sheftel, B. (2016). "Diplomesodon pulchellum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41448A115186837. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T41448A22293795.en.{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)
^ Cheke, A. (2011). "Sonnerat's shrew - evidence for a new and possibly extinct species in an early 19th century manuscript (Mammalia: Soricidae)" (PDF). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 108 (2): 95–97.

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[msw3-1] Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 255–256. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[iucn-2] Tsytsulina, K.; Formozov, N. & Sheftel, B. (2016). "Diplomesodon pulchellum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41448A115186837. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T41448A22293795.en.{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)

[Cheke2011-3] Cheke, A. (2011). "Sonnerat's shrew - evidence for a new and possibly extinct species in an early 19th century manuscript (Mammalia: Soricidae)" (PDF). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 108 (2): 95–97.

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Taxon identifiers
Diplomesodon pulchellum	Wikidata: Q1250357 Wikispecies: Diplomesodon pulchellum ADW: Diplomesodon_pulchellum EoL: 1178894 Fauna Europaea: 305481 Fauna Europaea (new): 359caf84-d32d-4d0a-8e27-61eab2ac6fe1 GBIF: 2435917 iNaturalist: 46924 IRMNG: 11369382 ITIS: 633704 IUCN: 41448 MSW: 13700253 NCBI: 458329
Sorex pulchellum	Wikidata: Q109646651 GBIF: 4409392

Piebald shrew^[1]

Piebald shrew in Moscow Zoo
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Soricidae
Subfamily:	Crocidurinae
Genus:	Diplomesodon
Species:	D. pulchellum
Binomial name
*Diplomesodon pulchellum* (Lichtenstein, 1823)

Piebald shrew range