Asoriculus corsicanus (Bate, 1945:748)
Corsican giant shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Neseotites corsicanus Bate, 1945:748 (original combination); Soriculus corsicanus (Bate, 1945); Episoriculus (Nesiotites) corsicanus Bate, 1945:748
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Corsica (France)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Bate, D.M.A. 1944 Pleistocene shrews from the larger Western Mediterranean islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 11 11, 738-769.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Van der Made, J. (1999). Biogeography and stratigraphy of the Mio-Pleistocene mammals of Sardinia and the description of some fossils. In Reumer, J.W.F. and De Vos, J., (eds.), Elephants have snorkel! Papers in honour of Paul Y. Sondaar. Deinsea, 7: 337-360.