Blarinellini

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Blarinellini
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Subfamily: Soricinae
Tribe: Blarinellini
Reumer, 1998
Genera

Blarinellini is a tribe of mammals. Recent Cytochrome b analysis [1] led to the genus Blarinella (the tribe's type genus) being split, with Blarinella quadraticauda and B. wardi remaining while B. griselda is moved to Parablarinella as Parablarinella griselda alongside the new species P. latimaxillata . [2]

References

  1. Bannikova, Anna A.; Jenkins, Paulina D. (2019). "Who are you, Griselda? A replacement name for a new genus of the Asiatic short-tailed shrews (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae): molecular and morphological analyses with the discussion of tribal affinities". ZooKeys (888): 133–158. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.888.37982 . PMC   6861342 . PMID   31754323.
  2. "Parablarinella griselda (O. Thomas, 1912)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists.