Clarifying the taxonomic status of Crocidura cantabra Cabrera, 1908 (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae: Crocidurinae)
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Jacinto Román
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Javier Calzada
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José Antonio Godoy
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Luis Biedma
Abstract
At the beginning of the 20th century Crocidura cantabra was described based on one specimen from Basque Provinces, North of Spain. Later, some authors considered it a junior synonym of Crocidura suaveolens, without any data to support this statement, so the eight existing specimens were registered as records of that species. Our objective was to clarify the taxonomic status of C. cantabra. Since DNA could not be obtained from the existing specimens and the coloration was originally poorly described, an attempt was made to make an assignment based on the original biometric data of two individuals, the only ones identified by Cabrera for which there is biometric information: the holotype and a specimen from Colindres, Cantabria. The body measurements were surely altered by conservation techniques, rendering any identification uncertain, whereas the skull biometry assigns the specimens to C. russula. We propose that C. cantabra should be treated as junior synonym of Crocidura russula.
Acknowledgments
We thank Angel Luis Garvia and Isabel Rey, curators of Mammals and Tissues and DNA Collection respectively, for facilitating the review of the collections of National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC), Madrid, and providing DNA extracts of one specimen, and Ana Píriz, technician at the Laboratory Molecular Ecology (LEM-EBD) for her support in laboratory work. Laboratory and computational facilities were provided by Doñana ICTS-RBD. We also thank Baxter Mansfield for reviewing the English of the manuscript.
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Author contributions: JR processed and analyzed the data and wrote the first version of the manuscript; JR, JC and LB collected the biometric data; JAG performed the genetic analysis; all authors reviewed and wrote the final manuscript. All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content and approved submission.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Research ethics: Our study was performed with official permits issued by the competent environmental authority and with a positive evaluation of the bioethics committee of the University of Huelva.
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- Evolutionary Biology
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- Annotations on the taxonomy of the opossums (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) of Honduras
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Obituary
- François Catzeflis (1953–2021)
- Ecology
- Hunting and water scarcity affect habitat occupancy by peccaries (Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu) in Calakmul, Mexico
- Camera trapping arboreal mammals in Argentina’s Atlantic Forest
- Activity patterns and burrowing ecology of the giant pouched rat (Cricetomys emini) in Tshuapa Province, D. R. Congo
- Is resource partitioning between two sympatric species of Gracilinanus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) related to trophic and spatial niches?
- Gone before it’s known? Camera-trapping shows alarming levels of putative hybrids in the wildcat (Felis silvestris) population of the Gargano National Park (Southern Italy)
- A note on bat faunal assessment in Karuna bat cave, Baglung, Nepal
- Long-distance dispersal of two species of shrews (Sorex caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 and Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766)
- Conservation
- A new threat for the rarest neotropical carnivore: the vulnerable Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei
- Evolutionary Biology
- Assessment of craniometric sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic variation in invasive Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus from urban and peri-urban areas of Gauteng Province, South Africa
- A geometric morphometric analysis of geographic variation in the Cape Short-eared gerbil, Desmodillus auricularis (Rodentia: Gerbillinae)
- Taxonomy/Phylogeny
- Cephalic shield morphology as species diagnostic trait and individual natural mark in three-banded armadillos (Tolypeutes; Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae)
- Annotations on the taxonomy of the opossums (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) of Honduras
- Clarifying the taxonomic status of Crocidura cantabra Cabrera, 1908 (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae: Crocidurinae)
