Blarinella quadraticauda

(A. Milne-Edwards in A. David, 1871)

Sichuan Short-tailed Shrew

Specimen deposited in Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China, Yunnan province, Kunming). Formerly Soricomorpha. Formerly Blarinella quadraticauda. Also as Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew|Chinese Short-tailed Shrew|Northern Short-tailed Shrew.
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Location:China, Yunnan province, Pu'er prefecture, Jingdong Li autonomous county, Ailao MountainDate taken:Dec 22, 2011

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 3181

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Superfamily : Soricoidea
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Soricinae
Tribe : Blarinellini
Genus : Blarinella

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

David, A. 1871. Rapport adressé à MM. les professeurs-administrateurs du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle (1)7(Bulletin):75-100.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13954607

Original name as described

Sorex quadraticauda

Other common names

Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew · Chinese Short-tailed Shrew · Northern Short-tailed Shrew

Type material

MNHN:type:233b, MNHN:type:233c, MNHN-ZM-MO-1870-578 (= MNHN:type:233a) (= MNHN-ZM-AC-A4548), MNHN-ZM-MO-1870-579 (= MNHN:type:233) (= MNHN "146")

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1870-579

Type locality

"Moupin [= Baoxing], Thibet oriental, " Sichuan, western China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China · Vietnam

Taxonomy notes citation

Liu, Q., Deng, Y., Fan, R.-h., Fu, C.-k., Wang, X.-m., Liu, S.-y. and Chen, S.-d. 2025. Phylogeography of a small mammal (Blarinella quadraticauda) distributed around the Sichuan Basin, southwest China. Zoologica Scripta 54(6):785-799. doi:10.1111/zsc.70012

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004117

Country distribution map

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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: 2 names and synonyms.

Sorex quadraticauda

(A. Milne-Edwards in A. David, 1871)

Family

Soricidae

Root name

quadraticauda

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN:type:233b, MNHN:type:233c, MNHN-ZM-MO-1870-578 (= MNHN:type:233a) (= MNHN-ZM-AC-A4548), MNHN-ZM-MO-1870-579 (= MNHN:type:233) (= MNHN "146")

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1870-579

Authority page

92

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13954607

Authority publication

Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

David (1871:92, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13954607) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/62819)

Blarinella quadraticauda

O. Thomas, 1911

Family

Soricidae

Root name

quadraticauda

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

166

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31251994

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Thomas (1911:166, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31251994) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14044)
  2. Thomas (1912:134, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31854806) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14032)
  3. Anthony (1941:72, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2771921) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16202)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1980:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  5. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:68) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  6. Corbet & Hill (1991:31) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  7. Hutterer (1993:106) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  8. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  9. Smith & Xie (2008:306) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #40613) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  11. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:446) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  12. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #40613) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  13. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004117) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  14. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40613/22283477) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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