Crocidura andamanensis Miller, 1902

Andaman white-toothed shrew, Andaman shrew

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Praesorex andamanensis Miller, 1902

Conservation Status

Last record: 1902

Rediscovered: 1999

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

Distribution

Andaman Islands, India

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Baillie, Jonathan and Groombridge, Brian. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.

Das, I. (1999). A noteworthy collection of mammals from Mount Harriet, Andaman Islands, India. Journal of South Asian Natural History 4(2): 181-185.

Fisher, Diana O. (2011). Trajectories from extinction: where are missing mammals rediscovered? Global Ecology & Biogeography 20: 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00624.x [Appendix S1]

Hutterer, R. (2005). Order Soricomorpha. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 220-311. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Molur, S. (2016). Crocidura andamanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T5595A22303530. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T5595A22303530.en. Downloaded on 15 February 2017.

Molur, S., Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Walker, S., Nameer, P. O. and Ravikumar, L. (2005). Status of non-volant small mammals: Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (C.A.M.P) workshop report. Zoo Outreach Organisation / CBSG-South Asia., Comibatore, India.

Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]

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