Podogymnura aureospinula

Heaney & G. S. Morgan, 1982

Dinagat Gymnure

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Eulipotyphla
Suborder: Erinaceota
Superfamily: Erinaceoidea
Family: Erinaceidae
Subfamily: Galericinae
Tribe: Echinosoricini
Genus: Podogymnura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Heaney, L.R. and Morgan, G.S. 1982. A new species of gymnure, Podogymnura, (Mammalia: Erinaceidae) from Dinagat Island, Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(1):13-26.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34964326

Original name as described

Podogymnura aureospinula

Other common names

Dinagat Moonrat · Dinagat Wood Shrew · Golden-spined Moonrat · Spiny Moonrat

Type material

DMNH 4386

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Plaridel, Albor Municipality, Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte Province, Republic of the Philippines." Interpreted by D. R. Frost and colleagues in 1991 as "10°12'N, 125°35'E."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Philippines

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003828

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Podogymnura aureospinula

Heaney & G. S. Morgan, 1982

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

aureospinula

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

DMNH 4386

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Plaridel, Albor Municipality, Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte Province, Republic of the Philippines

Type locality

Philippines: Dinagat: 10°12′N, 125°35′E.

Authority page

14

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34964326

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

Corbet (1988:130) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/3628)
Corbet & Hill (1991:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Frost, Wozencraft & Hoffmann (1991:24) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/3617)
Hutterer (1993:80) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #17829) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #17829) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Balete, Heaney, Rickart, Quidlat, Rowsey & Olson (2023:255) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59397)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003828) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17829/22326149) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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