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Crocidura ichnusae  Festa, 1912
Taxonomic Serial No.: 709755

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Crocidura cossyrensis Contoli, 1989
  
  Common Name(s): North African White-toothed Shrew [English]
  
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderSoricomorpha Gregory, 1910  
                                  FamilySoricidae G. Fischer, 1814 – shrews  
                                     SubfamilyCrocidurinae Milne-Edwards, 1872 – white-toothed shrews  
                                        GenusCrocidura Wagler, 1832  
                                           SpeciesCrocidura ichnusae Festa, 1912 – North African White-toothed Shrew  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
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  Reference for: Crocidura ichnusae, North African White-toothed Shrew [English]   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN - Lower Risk (lc) as C. cossyrensis  
    Comments: The species was first reported from Pantelleria as russula; see Contoli and Amori (1986); then named cossyrensis in a footnote (Contoli et al., 1989) and later redescribed by Contoli (1990). Closely related to russula if not conspecific (Sarà et al., 1990). However, morphological (Sarà and Vogel, 1996; Sarà and Zanca, 1992) as well as chromosomal differences, restricted fertility in the F2 generation (Vogel et al., 1992), and genetic data (Vogel, pers. comm.) suggest that C. russula include...  
 

 

    

 
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