Suncus murinus Linnaeus, 1766

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 165

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13931246

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scientific name

Suncus murinus Linnaeus, 1766
status

 

129. Suncus murinus Linnaeus, 1766 View in CoL

Common name: Asian House Shrew

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Widely distributed t hroughout Asia and introduced in historical times into coastal Africa and Madagascar. In Myanmar, recorded in Kachin State (Yikyawdi Village, Putao; Kawada et al. 2012), Sagaing Region (Proposed Mahamyaing WS; Thazin Wai et al. 2018) and widely distributed throughout the country.

Kawada, S. I., Kazuma, K., Asahina, H., Tsuchida, T., Tominaga, N., and Satake, M. (2012). Insectivorous small mammals in northern and middle Myanmar. Mem. Nat. Mus. Nat. Sci. 48: 75 - 80.

Thazin Wai, K., Sukmasuang, R., and Trisurat, Y. (2018). Comparison of small mammal communities in logged and unlogged areas in the proposed Mahamyaing Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar. J. Trop. For. Res. 1: 1 - 20.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

SubOrder

Hystricomorpha

InfraOrder

Hystricognathi

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Suncus