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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

 

 

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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.

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)]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/12339/jenkinss-shrew

 

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