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Taxonomy
Suncus was named by Ehrenberg (1832). It is extant.
It was assigned to Crocidurini by Van Valen (1967); to Crocidurinae by George (1986); and to Soricidae by Kurten (1968), Carroll (1988), Burney et al. (2008), Silcox et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Crocidurini by Van Valen (1967); to Crocidurinae by George (1986); and to Soricidae by Kurten (1968), Carroll (1988), Burney et al. (2008), Silcox et al. (2010).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1832 | Suncus Ehrenberg |
| 1839 | Pachyura Selys Longchamps |
| 1897 | Plerodus Schulze |
| 1967 | Suncus Van Valen |
| 1968 | Suncus Kurten p. 46 |
| 1986 | Suncus George p. 158 |
| 1988 | Suncus Carroll |
| 2008 | Suncus Burney et al. p. 18 |
| 2010 | Suncus Silcox et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Suncus Ehrenberg 1832
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Suncus etruscus Savi 1822
Suncus madagascariensis Coquerel 1848 [Madagascan pygmy shrew]
Suncus murinus Linnaeus 1766 [Asian house shrew]
Suncus varilla Thomas 1895 [Lesser dwarf shrew]
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Invalid names: Suncus orangiae Roberts 1924 [synonym]
Invalid names: Pachyura Selys Longchamps 1839 [synonym], Plerodus Schulze 1897 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 14 to the top of the Holocene or 4.90000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.2 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.2 Ma
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | South Africa | S. sp. (22224) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | S. sp. (59167) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | S. infinitessimus, S. varilla (22339) S. varilla (22341 22353) | |
| MN 14 | Poland | S. pannonicus (32240) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | India | S. murinus (70523) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Morocco | S. barbarus (32052 32054) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | S. haesaertsi, S. lixus, S. shungurensis (21546) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | S. varilla (22333) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | S. sp. (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Zambia | S. varilla (68339) | |
| Pleistocene | Greece (Chalkidiki) | Pachyura etrusca (183123) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | S. varilla (21915) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | S. infinitesimus, S. varilla (21949) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | S. varilla, S. orangiae (22628) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Israel | S. etruscus (192424) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | S. hungaricus (35464) | |
| Holocene | Palau | S. sp. (209744) | |
| Holocene | Yemen | S. madagascariensis (169046 234349) | |
| Holocene | Madagascar (Toliara) | S. madagascariensis (92733) | |
| Holocene | South Africa (N. Transraal) | S. lixus (21693) | |
| Holocene | France (Corse) | S. etruscus (215378) |