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Suncus

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Description

Suncus is a genus of shrews in the family Soricidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2435504	https://www.gbif.org/species/2435504
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40490	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40490

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : Suncus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricidae : Suncus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910
family	Soricidae	Fischer 1814
subfamily	Crocidurinae	Milne Edwards 1874
genus	Suncus	Ehrenberg 1832

Scientific Name

Suncus Ehrenberg, 1832

Name Published In

In Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. Mamm. vol.2 p.k

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Suncus	genus	belongs to Crocidurini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Suncus	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Kurten, 1968
Suncus	genus	belongs to Crocidurinae	stated with evidence	George, 1986
Suncus	genus	belongs to Soricidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Suncus	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Burney et al., 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 4.2 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Soricidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Common Name(s)

White-toothed Shrews, Musk Shrews

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Suncus aequatorius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus ater species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus dayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus etruscus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Suncus fellowesgordoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus hosei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus infinitesimus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus lixus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus madagascariensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus megalura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus mertensi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus montanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus murinus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Asian House Shrew	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Suncus palawanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus remyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus sacer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus stoliczkanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus varilla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Suncus zeylanicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Paradoxodon Wagner, 1855	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Paradoxodon*
Junkus Milne-Edwards, 1872	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Junkus*
Sunkus Sélys, 1839	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Sunkus*
Plerodus Schulze, 1897	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Plerodus*
Sunhus Mina-Palumbo, 1868	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Sunhus*
Podihik Deraniyagala, 1958	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Podihik*
Sunkus Sundevall, 1843	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Sunkus*
Pachyura Selys, 1839	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Pachyura*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
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.

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

Kurten B. (1968) Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 1-317

George S. B. (1986) Evolution and historical biogeography of soricine shrews, Systematic Zoology 35 2, 153-162

Burney D. A., Vasey N., et al (2008) New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 70 1, 13-24

Silcox M. T., Bloch J. I., et al (2010) Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160, 773-825

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sym. Phys., Mamm., 2, sign. k. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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