Neurotrichus

Genus of mammals

Neurotrichus
Shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 columbianus?

Neurotrichus is a genus of shrew-like moles. It is classified, together with the fossil genus Quyania, 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, Neurotrichus columbianus 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 Yanshuella.

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. hdl:11380/1318370.

Literature cited

  • Carraway, L.N. and Verts, B.J. 1991. Neurotrichus gibbsii. Archived 2010-12-05 at the Wayback Machine 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.
Taxon identifiers
Neurotrichus