Piebald shrew
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The piebald shrew (Diplomesodon pulchellus) is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
It grows to Template:Convert to Template:Convert in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night.
Taxonomy
It is the only extant member of the genus Diplomesodon. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: Diplomesodon sonnerati (Sonnerat's shrew). It was described again in 2018 to meet certain validity requirements of the ICZN code.[1] The American Society of Mammalogists considers D. sonnerati to be a subspecies of the piebald shrew, if it exists.[2]
References
- Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005.
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