Episoriculus Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951 (red-toothed shrew)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Soricidae

Parent taxon: Neomyini according to L. Van Valen 1967

See also Carroll 1988

Sister taxa: Amblycoptus, Anourosorex, Builstynia, Chimarrogale, Chodsigoa, Megasorex, Nectogale, Neomys, Neomysorex, Soriculus

Subtaxa: Episoriculus corsicanus Episoriculus gibberodon

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Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (6 collections), Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (9), Romania (2), Spain (1)

• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (3), Spain (2)

• MN 16 of Austria (1), Italy (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1)

• Pliocene of Austria (1), France (6), Hungary (1), Morocco (2), Poland (2), Spain (3), Türkiye (1)

• MN 13 of Greece (1)

Total: 48 collections each including a single occurrence

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