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4.1
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[222,468,190,221]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Crocidura ramona</emphasis>
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Our work, based on sequences from
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specimens, corroborates the view that
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[421,530,299,323]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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is a distinct species and probably endemic to
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<collectingCountry box="[391,451,335,357]" name="Israel" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Israel</collectingCountry>
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and the
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Dubey, S. & Salamin, N. & Ruedi, M. & Barriere, P. & Colyn, M. & Vogel, P." pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="953 - 963" refId="ref8688" refString="Dubey, S., Salamin, N., Ruedi, M., Barriere, P., Colyn, M., and Vogel, P. (2008). Biogeographic origin and radiation of the Old World crocidurine shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48: 953 - 963." type="journal article" year="2008">Dubey et al. 2008</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Ivanitskaya, E. & Shenbrot, G. & Nevo, E." box="[237,493,370,392]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="93 - 103" refId="ref9253" refString="Ivanitskaya, E., Shenbrot, G., and Nevo, E. (1996). Crocidura ramona sp. nov. (Insectivora, Soricidae): a new species of shrew from the central Negev desert, Israel. Z. Saugetierkd. 61: 93 - 103." type="journal article" year="1996">Ivanitskaya et al. 1996</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<taxonomicName box="[514,627,368,392]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[514,627,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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has been suggested to be related to the Palearctic “flat-headed rockshrews” (i.e.,
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Miller" authorityYear="1913" box="[336,557,437,461]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pergrisea">Crocidura pergrisea</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Spitzenberger" authorityYear="1971" box="[578,668,437,461]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arispa">C.arispa</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gureev" authorityYear="1963" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="armenica">Crocidura armenica</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Laptev" authorityYear="1929" box="[279,521,471,495]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="serezkyensis">Crocidura serezkyensis</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ognev" authorityYear="1928" box="[577,697,471,495]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="zarudnyi">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[577,697,471,495]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. zarudnyi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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) (
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<bibRefCitation author="Burgin, C. J. & Colella, J. P. & Kahn, P. L. & Upham, N. S." pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="1 - 14" refId="ref8077" refString="Burgin, C. J., Colella, J. P., Kahn, P. L., and Upham, N. S. (2018 a). How many species of mammals are there? J. Mammal. 99: 1 - 14." type="journal article" year="2018">Burgin et al. 2018b</bibRefCitation>
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; Kry
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[347,358,507,530]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Š</emphasis>
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tufek and Vohralík 2001). Although the DNA of most of the latter has not yet been sequenced, our analysis indicates that
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[436,552,575,599]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[620,746,575,599]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. zarudnyi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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are distantly related (
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<figureCitation box="[356,446,612,634]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="4.[794,851,1680,1699]" captionTargetBox="[794,1419,592,1642]" captionTargetId="figure-519@4.[794,1420,592,1642]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Figure 2: Maximum likelihood tree of Crocidura cytb sequences with emphasis on the Asian and Old World species. Phylogenetic relationships inferred from a matrix of 1,128 nucleotide positions for 131 individuals. Maximum likelihood bootstrap supports above 50% and Bayesian posterior probabilities above 0.70 are indicated near the corresponding node separated with a slash. Sequences obtained in this work are indicated in bold. Authors of sequence data in Supplementary Table S3." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837753" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7837753/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Figure 2</figureCitation>
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). Similarly, we have shown here that
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[214,322,644,668]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is not closely related to another silvery-gray shrew –
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Dobson" authorityYear="1890" box="[255,335,679,703]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nana">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[255,335,679,703]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. nana</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, as the two formed two distinct and distant clades in our phylogenetic analyses (Supplementary
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<figureCitation box="[166,272,750,772]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="2.[1016,1073,1451,1470]" captionTargetBox="[136,986,1355,1904]" captionTargetId="figure-558@2.[136,986,1355,1904]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figure 1: Shrew sample locations. A. samples sequenced in this work. B. shrew specimen present in the Steinhardt National Collection of Natural History, Zoological Museum at Tel Aviv University (Israel). The two major biomes of Israel: the Mediterranean biome, and the desert, are indicated in green and yellow,respectively. Red squares, blues stars, green circles and black triangles indicate C. ramona, S. etruscus, C. suaveolens gueldenstaedtii and C. leucodon specimen respectively.The museum records encompass 79 C. leucodon, 594 C. suaveolens gueldenstaedtii, 13 C. ramona and 443 S. etruscus." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837751" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7837751/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Figure S1</figureCitation>
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). We note that there is some doubt regarding
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Dobson" authorityYear="1890" box="[166,256,782,806]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nana">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,256,782,806]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. nana</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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’s distribution. It is usually considered to be restricted to
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and
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<collectingCountry box="[445,536,819,841]" name="Ethiopia" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Cassola, F." box="[550,694,819,841]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" refId="ref8245" refString="Cassola, F. (2019). Crocidura nana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019. e. T 41341 A 22306927." type="journal volume" year="2019">Cassola 2019</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Hutterer, R." pageId="7" pageNumber="86" refId="ref9003" refString="Hutterer, R. (2005). Order Soricomorpha. In Wilson DE., Reeder DM." type="book" year="2005">Hutterer 2005</bibRefCitation>
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), whereas the samples sequenced in this work originated from
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<collectingCountry box="[293,396,888,910]" name="Tanzania" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
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. We cannot be certain therefore that
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Dobson" authorityYear="1890" box="[166,246,920,944]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nana">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,246,920,944]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. nana</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is the correct species assignment for the Tanzanian samples that we sequenced.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="7.[166,794,266,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
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Because no morphological comparisons have been carried out between the skulls of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1937" box="[520,625,1021,1045]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="katinka">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[520,625,1021,1045]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. katinka</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName box="[678,786,1021,1045]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[678,786,1021,1045]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, the exact relationship between these two species remains to be determined. Although
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1937" box="[470,576,1090,1114]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="katinka">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[470,576,1090,1114]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. katinka</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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has been suggested to be related to certain African species with cranial similarities (e.g.,
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1898" box="[323,516,1160,1184]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bottegi">Crocidura bottegi</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Heim de Balsac" authorityYear="1958" box="[535,671,1160,1184]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="obscurior">C. obscurior</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Hutterer & Yalden" authorityYear="1990" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bottegoides">Crocidura bottegoides</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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) (
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<bibRefCitation author="Burgin, C. J. & Colella, J. P. & Kahn, P. L. & Upham, N. S." box="[309,515,1196,1218]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="1 - 14" refId="ref8077" refString="Burgin, C. J., Colella, J. P., Kahn, P. L., and Upham, N. S. (2018 a). How many species of mammals are there? J. Mammal. 99: 1 - 14." type="journal article" year="2018">Burgin et al. 2018b</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Hutterer, R. & Kock, D." box="[525,782,1196,1218]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="249 - 258" refId="ref9088" refString="Hutterer, R., and Kock, D. (2002). Recent and ancient records of shrews from Syria, with notes on Crocidura katinka Bate 1937 (Mammalia: Soricidae). Bonn. Zool. Beitr. 50: 249 - 258." type="journal article" year="2002">Hutterer and Kock 2002</bibRefCitation>
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), our analyses have demonstrated that
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[587,699,1229,1253]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is unrelated to
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[255,388,1263,1287]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Heim de Balsac" authorityYear="1958" box="[255,383,1263,1287]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="obscurior">C. obscurior</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="7.[166,794,266,1941]" lastBlockId="7.[824,1452,193,456]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
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It is also possible that
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[468,579,1295,1319]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is conspecific with
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[166,267,1329,1353]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,267,1329,1353]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
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</taxonomicName>
|
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.
|
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<bibRefCitation author="Thomas, O." box="[283,444,1332,1354]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" refId="ref10406" refString="Thomas, O. (1920). A new shrew and two new foxes from Asia Minor and Palestine. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 5: 199 - 122." type="book" year="1920">Thomas (1920)</bibRefCitation>
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described
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[568,669,1329,1353]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[568,669,1329,1353]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as a small shrew (“though not excessively so”), with “pale drab-grey” pelage; and indicated that it has “clearly nothing to do with the
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[209,314,1433,1457]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="russula">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[209,314,1433,1457]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. russula</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group”. The gross morphology of the
|
||
<typeStatus pageId="7" pageNumber="86">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
(BMNH #19.4.11.9) and its size agree with
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[664,773,1468,1492]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[664,773,1468,1492]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
– though a detailed examination is still needed in order to confirm or refute this. Kry
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[449,460,1538,1561]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Š</emphasis>
|
||
tufek and Vohralík (2001) suggested that
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[300,401,1571,1595]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[300,401,1571,1595]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
may be a valid species, related to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Spitzenberger" authorityYear="1971" box="[166,351,1606,1630]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arispa">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,351,1606,1630]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Crocidura arispa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(and other members of the
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Miller" authorityYear="1913" box="[695,793,1607,1630]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pergrisea">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[695,793,1607,1630]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">pergrisea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group), and a senior synonym of
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[531,641,1640,1664]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,641,1640,1664]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Hutterer, R. & Kock, D." pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="249 - 258" refId="ref9088" refString="Hutterer, R., and Kock, D. (2002). Recent and ancient records of shrews from Syria, with notes on Crocidura katinka Bate 1937 (Mammalia: Soricidae). Bonn. Zool. Beitr. 50: 249 - 258." type="journal article" year="2002">Hutterer and Kock (2002)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
indicated that
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[473,586,1675,1699]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[473,586,1675,1699]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[648,749,1675,1699]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[648,749,1675,1699]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are similar in skull dimensions as well as in pelage, but note that they are also similar to
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[472,577,1744,1768]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gmelini">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[472,577,1744,1768]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. gmelini</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, a species that they note requires “a better definition”.
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[538,640,1779,1803]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gmelini">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[538,640,1779,1803]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. gmelini</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(ranging from
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[166,210,1816,1837]" name="Iran" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Iran</collectingCountry>
|
||
to
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[249,352,1815,1837]" name="Mongolia" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Mongolia</collectingCountry>
|
||
) has been synonymized with
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="suaveolens">C. suaveolens</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
a species distantly related to
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[557,670,1848,1872]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[557,670,1848,1872]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<figureCitation box="[687,782,1850,1872]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="4.[794,851,1680,1699]" captionTargetBox="[794,1419,592,1642]" captionTargetId="figure-519@4.[794,1420,592,1642]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Figure 2: Maximum likelihood tree of Crocidura cytb sequences with emphasis on the Asian and Old World species. Phylogenetic relationships inferred from a matrix of 1,128 nucleotide positions for 131 individuals. Maximum likelihood bootstrap supports above 50% and Bayesian posterior probabilities above 0.70 are indicated near the corresponding node separated with a slash. Sequences obtained in this work are indicated in bold. Authors of sequence data in Supplementary Table S3." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837753" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7837753/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">Figure 2</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,393,1882,1906]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Spitzenberger" authorityYear="1971" box="[166,263,1882,1906]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arispa">C. arispa</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[276,388,1882,1906]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">C. ramona</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1937" box="[449,556,1882,1906]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="katinka">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[449,556,1882,1906]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. katinka</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are currently all considered valid species, while
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[507,613,1917,1941]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[507,613,1917,1941]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is not (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Burgin, C. J. & Colella, J. P. & Kahn, P. L. & Upham, N. S." box="[719,953,193,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" pagination="1 - 14" refId="ref8077" refString="Burgin, C. J., Colella, J. P., Kahn, P. L., and Upham, N. S. (2018 a). How many species of mammals are there? J. Mammal. 99: 1 - 14." type="journal article" year="2018">Burgin et al. 2018b</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="IUCN" box="[965,1084,193,215]" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" refId="ref9169" refString="IUCN. 2020. The IUCN red list of threatened species. Gland: Switzerland. Version 2020 - 1. Available at: https: // www. iucnredlist. org. Downloaded on April 2020." type="url" year="2020">IUCN 2020</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Clearly, a taxonomic revision of these taxa is warranted. Neither the DNA of the
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[1353,1451,225,249]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1353,1451,225,249]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
type, nor that of any shrews identified as
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Spitzenberger" authorityYear="1971" box="[1274,1368,260,284]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arispa">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1274,1368,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. arispa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Miller" authorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pergrisea">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. pergrisea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, or
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[938,1055,294,318]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1937" box="[938,1050,294,318]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="katinka">C. katinka</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
has been sequenced and, unfortunately, we failed to amplify any cyt
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1196,1210,330,353]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">b</emphasis>
|
||
fragment from a tissue of a specimen identified as
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[1122,1220,363,387]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portali">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1122,1220,363,387]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. portali</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(BMNH ZD 1971.817). We thus tentatively ascribe the sequence we obtained to
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[824,933,432,456]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Crocidura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="86" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ramona">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[824,933,432,456]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="86">C. ramona</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, pending a taxonomic revision.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |