Crocidura religiosa I. Geoffroy, 1827:128
Egyptian pygmy shrew, Mummy shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Egypt
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Known only from two living specimens, but mummified individuals are also known (Hutterer et. al. 2008).
Media
References
Aulagnier, S., Haffner, P., Mitchell-Jones, A. J., Moutou, F. and Zima, J. (2009). Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. A&C Black, London.
Corbet, G. B. (1978). The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. London: British Museum (Natural History). 314 pp.
Hutterer, Rainer. (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.
Hutterer, R., Amori, G., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsain, G. and Muñoz, L. J. P. (2008). Crocidura religiosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 03 July 2011.
Osborn, D. J. and Helmy, I. (1980). The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Field Museum of Natural History, Bethseda, Maryland.
Woodman, Neal, Ikram, Salima and Rowland, Joanne. (2022). Environmental implications of Ptolemaic Period rodents and shrews from the Sacred Falcon Necropolis at Quesna, Egypt (Mammalia: Muridae and Soricidae). BMC Ecology and Evolution 22: 148. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02101-x
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]
Woodman, Neal, Wilken, Alec T. and Ikram, Salima. (2019). See how they ran: morphological and functional aspects of skeletons from ancient Egyptian shrew mummies (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae: Crocidurinae). Journal of Mammalogy. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz091
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