Neurotrichus
| Neurotrichus | |
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Shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Talpidae |
| Tribe: | Neurotrichini |
| Genus: | Neurotrichus Günther , 1880
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| Type species | |
Urotrichus gibbsii
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Neurotrichus is a
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
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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
- ^ Hutterer, 2005
- ^ Carraway and Verts, 1991, p. 2
- ^ Zijlstra, 2010
- 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.