Description of a new species of the genus &lt;i&gt;Uropsilus&lt;/i&gt; (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae: Uropsilinae) from the Dabie Mountains, Anhui, Eastern China

Hu, Tingli; Xu, Zhichao; Zhang, Heng; Liu, Yingxun; Li, Rui; Yang, Guang-Dao; Sun, Ruoxi; Shi, Jie; Ban, Qian; Li, Chunlin; Liu, Shaoying; Zhang, Baowei

doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.266

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“…The distribution of P. latimaxillata unlikely extends eastward or northward as there are no suitable habitats-the species may have a restricted distribution in Dabie Mountains, far apart from the other Asiatic short-tailed shrews. This discontinuous distribution pattern is similar to that of two other new species in the Order Eulipotyphla recently discovered in the Dabie Mountainsthe shrew-like mole Uropsilus dabieshanensis Hu et al, 2021 and the nectogaline shrew Chodsigoa dabieshanensis (Hu et al 2021. Parablarinella latimaxillata is genetically and morphologically distinctive from all the other Asiatic short-tailed shrews.…”

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“…The divergence of P. latimaxillata and P. griselda appears to have occurred in the Pliocene period, similar to the divergence between U. dabieshanensis and its congeneric species from southwestern and central China (Hu et al 2021). geographic and paleontological evidence has suggested that eastern Asiaincluding the Dabie Mountains-experienced cooling and aridification during this time (Feng 1976;Qiu and Li 2005;ge et al 2013), which triggered the differentiation of mammalian faunas.…”

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Molecular and morphological evidence support a new species of Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Chen,

Hu,

et al. 2023

Journal of Mammalogy

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Asiatic short-tailed shrews (Blarinella and Parablarinella) are small insectivorous mammals distributed mainly in central and southwestern China, and adjacent Myanmar and Vietnam, currently comprising three species. In 2021, we collected five specimens of Asiatic short-tailed shrews in the Dabie Mountains, eastern China, which is geographically distant from the known distribution of the taxa. Herein, we integrated molecular and morphometric approaches to assess the taxonomy, phylogeny, and divergence of Asiatic short-tailed shrews. Our results indicate that the specimens collected from Dabie Mountains represent a new species, formally described here. The new species is morphologically distinguishable from other Asiatic short-tailed shrews by the combination of a triangular upper P4, lighter feet color, relatively broader skull, and more curved outline of tooth row of P4–M3. Phylogenetic analyses indicate the new species is sister to P. griselda, and the p-distance of Cyt b between the two species is 8.3%. The divergence between the new species and P. griselda occurred ca. 3.08 million years ago and may have been affected by East Asia’s topographic and climate changes in the late Pliocene.

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Molecular and morphological evidence support a new species of Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Chen,

Hu,

et al. 2023

Journal of Mammalogy

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“…Regarding the Chinese shrew mole, on the basis of morphological characteristics and the geographic location, we tentatively assigned the found individual to U. soricipes 5 . Given that recent studies showed that the number of species in the genus Uropsilus may be much larger than is currently known 9 , 22 , we cannot be confident that this individual is a true U. soricipes . In this study, it is referred to as U. aff.…”

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“…nov., was recently described based on morphological and molecular genetic data 22 ; thus, now the genus is thought to comprise seven species. At least 15 monophyletic lineages of Uropsilus have been recognised using molecular markers, and it seems that the taxonomic diversity of this genus may still be underestimated 9 , 22 . Until now, karyotypes of only two species, U. nivatus and U. andersoni , have been reported.…”

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High diversity of small insectivorous mammals on Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and first description of karyotype for four endemics of China

Pavlova

Lebedev

Yakushov

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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Among seven species of the order Eulipotyphla (from southern Gansu and northern Sichuan Provinces, Central China) studied cytogenetically, karyotypes of one talpid species, Uropsilus aff. soricipes (2n = 36, NFa = 54), and three soricid species, Chodsigoa hypsibia (2n = 65, NFa = 66), Sorex cansulus (2n = 42, NFa = 64) and Sorex thibetanus (2n = 42, NFa = 60), are described cytogenetically for the first time. All four species are endemic to China with distribution ranges restricted to the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and adjacent mountain ranges. The Ch. hypsibia karyotype consists of mostly acrocentric autosomes and one metacentric pair of autosomes; besides, a B chromosome was identified. No polymorphism was detected among karyotypes of other species, including shrews Sorex bedfordiae (2n = 26, NFa = 44), Anourosorex squamipes (2n = 48, NFa = 92) and Crocidura suaveolens (2n = 40, NFa = 44). The Chinese shrew mole U. aff. soricipes and three shrew species (S. bedfordiae, Ch. hypsibia and A. squamipes) represent autochthonous fauna of Central/Western China, whereas S. thibetanus, S. cansulus and C. suaveolens belong to phylogenetic groups occurring mostly to the north and west from China; therefore, they should be considered relatively recent colonisers. Thus, considering the relationships of the species within phylogenetic groups, our results on karyotypes are in good agreement with molecular genetic data.

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“…As the highest-ranking species according to ES, the gracile shrew mole possesses additional features associated with echolocation, such as nocturnal habit, reduced eyes, and large external ears, which further suggests that this species may use echolocation ( 21 ). It is noted that all eight recognized species of shrew moles (subfamily Uropsilinae) share similar ecological and morphological traits ( Fig.…”

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Evolutionary prediction for new echolocators

Liu,

Hua,

Sun

et al. 2023

Preprint

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It was suggested over 60 years ago that echolocation is widespread in animals. Although echolocation has been found to evolve independently in several mammalian lineages, this hypothesis remains largely untested due to the difficulty of determining the presence of echolocation. To address this issue, we combined molecular convergence analyses from 190 high-quality mammalian genomes with machine learning to predict potential new mammalian echolocators. Our model predicted three promising lineages of echolocating mammals. Behavioral experiments confirmed that the gracile shrew mole (Uropsilus gracilis), the highest-ranking species among predicted echolocators, as well as almost all shrew moles (Uropsilinae), are capable of echolocation through the use of ultrasonic pulses. In contrast to most bats that use laryngeal echolocation, the characteristics of calls, the morphology of the stylohyal bone, and the results of tongue ligation experiments all suggest that shrew moles produce ultrasonic clicks with their tongues for echolocation. Finally, we estimated at least 20% of all living mammalian orders with echolocation ability, thus empirically supporting Griffin's hypothesis that echolocation is widespread among animals. Our findings not only provide evidence that three novel lineages of echolocating mammals, but also demonstrate that phylogenetically replicated phenotypes can be predicted through genetic convergence.

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Description of a new species of the genus <i>Uropsilus</i> (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae: Uropsilinae) from the Dabie Mountains, Anhui, Eastern China

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Molecular and morphological evidence support a new species of Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Molecular and morphological evidence support a new species of Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

High diversity of small insectivorous mammals on Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and first description of karyotype for four endemics of China

Evolutionary prediction for new echolocators

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