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Rhynchocyon Peters, 1847

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin vol.12 p.36

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Macroscelidea
family
Macroscelididae
genus
Rhynchocyon

Name

Synonyms
Rhinonax Thomas, 1918
Rhyncodon Allen, 1892
Homonyms
Rhynchocyon Peters, 1847
Rhynchocyon Gistl, 1848
Common names
Checkered Elephant Shrews in English
Checkered Elephant Shrews in English
Checkered Elephant Shrews in English
Dev Sengi in Turkish
Giant Elephant Shrews in English
Giant Sengis in English
Kjempesengier in Norwegian Bokmål
Rüsselhündchen in German
Sengis Gigantes in Spanish
Sengui Gigante Carigrís in Spanish
Snabelhunder in Norwegian Bokmål
Sorkonos in Polish
isokuonokkaat in Finnish
Хоботковые собачки in Russian
テングハネジネズミ属 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Heritage, S. / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds., 2018: Family Macroscelididae (Sengis). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 8: Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos. 206-234.
  2. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  3. Peters, W.K.H. (1847). [Eine Neue Säugethiergattung aus der Ordnung der Insektenfresser]. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1847: 36-38.
  4. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
  5. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
  6. Senut, B.; Pickford, M. (2021). Micro-cursorial mammals from the late Eocene tufas at Eocliff, Namibia. <em>Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia.</em> 23: 90-160.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204.
  11. as per family
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