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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura orii
| Author: | Kuroda, 1924. | | Citation: | [New Mammals from the Ryukyu Islands]: 3. | | Common Name: | Ryukyu Shrew | | Type Locality: | Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Amamioshima, Komi. | | Distribution: | Amami Group of Ryukyu Isls, Japan. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Provisionally included in dsinezumi (Corbet, 1978c); but regarded as a separate species by Imaizumi (1961, 1970b), Abe (1967), Jenkins (1976), Corbet and Hill (1992), and Hutterer (1993a), among others. The species was first described by Kuroda (1924) in a publication which, although privately published, has been regarded as available by all subsequent authors. See Motokawa (1998) for a review of the species. |
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