Crocidura balsamifera Hutterer, 1994
Mummified shrew (proposed), Mummy shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c.400 BC
Distribution
Egypt
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hutterer, Rainer. (1994). Shrews of ancient Egypt: biogeographical interpretation of a new species. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 18: 407-413.
Other references:
Holmes, Branden. (2021). What's Lost and What Remains: The Sixth Extinction in 100 Accounts. Self published. [Available from Amazon]
Wilson, D. E. and Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Woodman, Neal, Koch, Claudia and Hutterer, Rainer. (2017). Rediscovery of the type series of the Sacred Shrew, Sorex religiosus I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826, with additional notes on mummified shrews of ancient Egypt (Mammalia: Soricidae). Zootaxa 4341(1): 1-24. [Abstract]
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/6327/crocidura-balsamifera-mummy-shrew