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

Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.

Bate, D.M.A. 1944 Pleistocene shrews from the larger Western Mediterranean islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 11 11, 738-769.

Mein, P. (1983). Particularites de l' evolution insulaire chez les petits Mammiferes. Colloq. Int. C.N.R.S. 330: 189-193.

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.

Vigne J-D and Valladas H (1996) Small mammal fossil assemblages as indicators of environmental change in northern Corsica during the last 2500 years. Journal of Archaeological Science 23, 199–215.

Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. 2005 Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.

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