Crocidura jenkinsi Chakraborty, 1978
Jenkin's shrew, Jenkin’s Andaman spiny shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1972
Rediscovered in 1997
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Andaman Islands, India
Biology
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.
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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 jenkinsi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T5604A22299101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T5604A22299101.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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