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

By

Bannikova, Anna
Jenkins, Paulina D.
Solovyeva, Evgeniya
Pavlova, Svetlana V.
Demidova, Tatiana
Simanovsky, Sergey
Sheftel, Boris I.
Lebedev, Vladimir S.
Fang, Yun
Dalen, Love
Abramov, Alexei

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

888

Pages

133--158

Subjects

Blarinellini , Blarinini , karyotypic variation , molecular phylogeny , Parablarinella

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.888.37982

 

Abstract

The first genetic study of the holotype of the Gansu short-tailed shrew, Blarinella griselda Thomas, 1912, is presented. The mitochondrial analysis demonstrated that the type specimen of B. griselda is close to several recently collected specimens from southern Gansu, northern Sichuan and Shaanxi, which are highly distinct from the two species of Asiatic short-tailed shrews of southern Sichuan, Yunnan, and Vietnam, B. quadraticauda and B. wardi. Our analysis of four nuclear genes supported the placement of B. griselda as sister to B. quadraticauda / B. wardi, with the level of divergence between these two clades corresponding to that among genera of Soricinae. A new generic name, Parablarinella, is proposed for the Gansu short-tailed shrew. Karyotypes of Parablarinella griselda (2n = 49, NFa = 50) and B. quadraticauda (2n = 49, NFa = 62) from southern Gansu are described. The tribal affinities of Blarinellini and Blarinini are discussed.