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Genus of mammals
Large-headed shrews | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Soricidae |
Subfamily: | Crocidurinae |
Genus: | Paracrocidura de Balsac, 1956 |
Type species | |
Paracrocidura schoutedeni de Balsac, 1956
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Species | |
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Paracrocidura is a genus of shrews.[1] They are mammals in the family Soricidae. The vernacular name large-headed shrews is sometimes collectively applied to the genus, but has also been applied to the species Crocidura grandiceps.
The genus contains the following species:
- Grauer's large-headed shrew (Paracrocidura graueri)
- Greater large-headed shrew (Paracrocidura maxima)
- Lesser large-headed shrew (Paracrocidura schoutedeni)
References
[edit]- ^ Hutterer, R. (2005). "Genus Paracrocidura". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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