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Sicilian shrew

{{Short description|Species of mammal}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Sicilian shrew{{MSW3 Hutterer|id =13700211}}

| image = Crocidura sicula 01-cropped.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Giovanni Amori |date=2016 |title=Crocidura sicula |volume=2016 |page=e.T29655A2791535 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T29655A2791535.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Crocidura

| species = sicula

| authority = Miller, 1900

| synonyms =

| range_map = Sicilian Shrew area.png

| range_map_caption = Sicilian shrew range

}}

The Sicilian shrew (Crocidura sicula) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Sicily (Italy) and Gozo (Malta). Its natural habitat is temperate shrubland.

Distribution and habitat

It is present in Sicily and Ustica (C. s. sicula), in the Egadi Islands (C. s. aegatensis) and in Gozo (C. s. calypso). It lives in open environments of gariga or Mediterranean scrub but also within lyce, cork and beech forest formations, from {{cvt|0|to|1800|m}} above sea level. Sometimes it is also present within citrus groves and cultivated areas as well as, rarely, in rural dwellings.

=Subspecies=

Four subspecies of the Sicilian shrew are found:

  • Crocidura sicula sicula - on the island of Sicily{{cite web |url=http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/malta/Eco1.htm |title=The Maltese Ecology |access-date=2007-08-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031521/http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/malta/Eco1.htm |archive-date=2007-09-28 }}
  • Crocidura sicula aegatensis - on the Aegadian Islands
  • Crocidura sicula calypso - on the island of Gozo
  • Crocidura sicula esuae - a fossil form from the Middle Pleistocene of Sicily, larger than living individuals, though other authors have suggested that this represents an extinct species that was replaced by C. sicula.{{Cite journal |last=MANUEL LÓPEZ-GARCÍA |first=JUAN |last2=BLAIN |first2=HUGUES-ALEXANDRE |last3=PAGANO |first3=ENRICO |last4=OLLÉ |first4=ANDREU |last5=MARIA VERGÈS |first5=JOSEP |last6=FORGIA |first6=VINCENZA |date=2013-07-31 |title=THE SMALL MAMMALS (INSECTIVORES, BATS AND RODENTS) FROM THE HOLOCENE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF VALLONE INFERNO (SCILLATO, LOWER IMERA VALLEY, NORTHWESTERN SICILY) |url=http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/6037 |journal=Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |language=en |volume=119 |pages=2 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/6037}}

See also

References

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{{More footnotes|date=April 2009}}

  • {{cite journal|journal=Hystrix |year=1996 |volume=8 |issue=1–2 |pages=121–132 |title=Crocidura populations (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the sicilian–maltese insular area|author=Sarà M.|author2=Vitturi R.|name-list-style=amp|url=http://fauna.dipbsf.uninsubria.it/atit/PDF/Volume8(1-2)/8(1-2)_16.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515020857/http://fauna.dipbsf.uninsubria.it/atit/PDF/Volume8(1-2)/8(1-2)_16.pdf|archive-date=2006-05-15}}

{{Soricomorpha|C1.}}

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Category:Crocidura

Category:Fauna of Malta

Category:Gozo

Category:Mammals described in 1900

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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