Palawanosorex ater

(Medway, 1965)

Black Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Eulipotyphla
Suborder: Erinaceota
Superfamily: Soricoidea
Family: Soricidae
Subfamily: Crocidurinae
Genus: Palawanosorex

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Medway, Lord. 1965-12. Mammals of Borneo. Field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36(3):1-193.

Authority publication link

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41505685

Original name as described

Suncus ater

Type material

MCZ:Mamm:36574

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:36574

Type locality

Lumu-Lumu, 5500 ft. (= 1676 m), Gunung (= Mt.) Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Malaysia

Taxonomy notes

moved from Suncus to Palawanosorex

Taxonomy notes citation

Nations, J.A., Giarla, T.C., Morni, M.A., William Dee, J., Swanson, M.T., Hiller, A.E., Khan, F.A.A. and Esselstyn, J.A. 2022. Molecular data from the holotype of the enigmatic Bornean Black Shrew, Suncus ater Medway, 1965 (Soricidae, Crocidurinae), place it in the genus Palawanosorex. ZooKeys 1137:17-31. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1137.94217

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004055

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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: 3 names and synonyms.

Suncus ater

Medway, 1965

Family

Soricidae

Root name

ater

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MCZ:Mamm:36574

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Lumu-lumu, G. Kinabalu, 5, 500 ft.

Type locality

Malaysia: Sabah.

Type specimen URI

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:36574

Authority page

38

Authority publication

Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Name usages

Corbet & Hill (1980:31) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:99) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:36) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Hutterer (1993:101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #21141) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:464) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #21141) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21141/22290051) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Palawanosorex ater:

Nations, Giarla, Morni, William Dee, Swanson, Hiller, F. A. A. Khan, & Esselstyn, 2022

Family

Soricidae

Root name

ater

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

24

Authority publication

ZooKeys

Name usages

Nations, Giarla, Morni, William Dee, Swanson, Hiller, Khan & Esselstyn (2022:24) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61273)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004055) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

Palawanosrex ater:

Nations, Giarla, Morni, William Dee, Swanson, Hiller, F. A. A. Khan, & Esselstyn, 2022

Family

Soricidae

Root name

ater

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

23

Authority publication

ZooKeys

Name usages

Nations, Giarla, Morni, William Dee, Swanson, Hiller, Khan & Esselstyn (2022:23) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61273)

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