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GENUS Myosorex

Author:Gray, 1837.
Actual Date:1838
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 124.
Type Species:Sorex varius Smuts, 1832.
Comments:Repenning (1967) grouped Myosorex in the Crocidurinae; Reumer's (1987) Crocidosoricinae would fit as well. Kretzoi (1965) based the tribe Myosoricini on this genus; this name is available and used here for the subfamily. Generic status sometimes questioned; but see Meester (1954). Surdisorex and Congosorex are often included as subgenera but are treated here as full genera, following Thomas (1906b), Hollister (1918), Meester (1953), Heim de Balsac (1966b), Hutterer (1993a) and Hutterer et al. (2002b). Partial reviews of Myosorex were provided by Heim de Balsac (1967, 1968b), Heim de Balsac and Lamotte (1956), Meester and Dippenaar (1978), and Stanley and Hutterer (2000). The formerly recognized Myosorex preussi (Matschie, 1893), described from "Mount Cameroun", is based on mismatched parts of three different genera (Crocidura, Sorex, Sylvisorex), and does not represent a biological species (Hutterer, 1993a).
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