Myosoricinae

According to the current taxonomy, Myosoricinae is a subfamily of shrews. As such, they form one of three main types of shrew, the other two being the red-toothed shrews and the white-toothed shrews. They are the only one of the three to be found exclusively south of the Sahara Desert, and accordingly they have been described in English as the African shrews, but there are also many white-toothed shrews in Africa and accordingly this term is more generally used for shrews from Africa in general.^[1] The subfamily has three genera:

• Congosorex, Congo shrews
• Myosorex, forest and mouse shrews
• Surdisorex, African mole shrews

According to Furió et al.(2007)^[2] the group should have the status of tribe, as a relict of the primitive subfamily Crocidosoricinae (Reumer, 1987).

References

1. ^ Quérouil et al., 2001, Mol. Phyl. Evol. 20(2):185-195
2. ^ Furió, M., Santos-Cubedo, A., Minwer-Barakat, R., Agustí, J. 2007. Evolutionary history of the African soricid Myosorex (Insectivora, Mammalia) out of Africa. J. Vert. Paleont. 27(4):1018-1032.

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