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Blarina

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Description

The genus Blarina is a group of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails found in North America. They have 32 teeth and are in the red-toothed shrew subfamily.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarina, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2435858	https://www.gbif.org/species/2435858
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40457	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40457

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : Blarina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricidae : Blarina

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910
family	Soricidae	Fischer 1814
subfamily	Soricinae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
tribe	Blarinini	Kretzoi 1965
genus	Blarina	Gray 1837

Common Name

American short-tailed shrew

Scientific Name

Blarina Gray, 1837

Name Published In

Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1837 p.124

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Blarina	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Lesson, 1842
Blarina	genus	belongs to Blarinini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Blarina	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Wilson, 1967
Blarina	genus	belongs to Blarinini	stated with evidence	George, 1986
Blarina	genus	belongs to Soricidae	implied	Carroll, 1988

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

4.90 - 1.80 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Soricidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Common Name(s)

American Short-tailed Shrew, Short-tailed Shrews, American Short-tailed Shrews

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarina

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Blarina brevicauda species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Northern Short-tailed Shrew	39	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Blarina carolinensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Southern Short-tailed Shrew	24	1.81 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Blarina hylophaga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Blarina peninsulae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Brachysorex Duvernoy, 1842	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Brachysorex*
Anotus Wagner, 1855	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Anotus*
Talposorex Pomel, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Talposorex*
Mamblarinaus Herrera, 1899	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Mamblarinaus*
Blaria Gray, 1843	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : *Blaria*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Blarina Gray
1842	Blarina Lesson
1848	Talposorex Pomel
1855	Anotus Wagner
1899	Mamblarinaus Herrera
1902	Blarina Hay p. 738

Year	Name and Author
1952	Blarina Sherman p. 87
1967	Blarina Van Valen
1967	Blarina Wilson p. 207
1980	Blarina Kurten and Anderson p. 111
1986	Blarina George p. 153
1988	Blarina Carroll

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Sherman H. B. (1952) A list and bibliography of the mammals of Florida, living and extinct, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 15 2, 86-126

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

Wilson R. L. (1967) The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52, 197-234

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

George S. B. (1986) Evolution and historical biogeography of soricine shrews, Systematic Zoology 35 2, 153-162

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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