Snow Mountain shrew mole
| Snow Mountain shrew mole | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Talpidae |
| Genus: | Uropsilus |
| Species: | U. nivatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Uropsilus nivatus (Allen, 1923)
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The Snow Mountain shrew mole (Uropsilus nivatus) is a species of
type locality of the species. Aside from there, the only other confirmed specimen is from Cang Mountain.[1][2]
It was formerly considered synonymous with the gracile shrew mole (U. gracilis), but a 2018 phylogenetic study found it to be a distinct species. The study found it to be the second most basal member of Uropsilus (with only the inquisitive shrew mole, U. investigator, being more basal), diverging from the rest of the genus during the early-mid Pliocene.[1]
References
- ^ PMID 24161152.
- ^ "Explore the Database". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
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