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Black-backed shrew mole

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Black-backed shrew mole
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Talpidae
Genus: Uropsilus
Species:
U. atronates
Binomial name
Uropsilus atronates
(Allen, 1923)

The black-backed shrew mole (Uropsilus atronates) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to China, where it is only known from the vicinity of Mucheng in Yunnan Province.[1][2]

It was first named as a subspecies of Anderson's shrew mole, Rhynchonax andersoni atronates, by Glover Morrill Allen in 1923.[3] Later it was considered synonymous with the gracile shrew mole (U. gracilis), but a 2018 phylogenetic study found it to be a distinct species. The study found it to be sister species to a clade comprising U. gracilis and a putative undescribed species of Uropsilus. Both groups likely diverged during the early-mid Pleistocene.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wan, Tao; He, Kai; Jiang, Xue-Long (2013-10-25). "Multilocus phylogeny and cryptic diversity in Asian shrew-like moles (Uropsilus, Talpidae): implications for taxonomy and conservation". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 232. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-232. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 3819745. PMID 24161152.
  2. ^ "Explore the Database". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  3. ^ Allen, Glover Morrill (1923). "New Chinese insectivores". American Museum Novitates (100): 1–11. hdl:2246/4530.