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Diplomesodon Fossorius
''Diplomesodon'' is a genus of shrew that contains a single extant species, the piebald shrew ''(Diplomesodon pulchellum)''. Taxonomy An extinct species named '' Diplomesodon fossorius'' is known from the Early Pleistocene of South Africa, very distant from the current Caspian region The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ... distribution of the piebald shrew. Another potential member of this genus is the enigmatic Sonnerat's shrew ''(Diplomesodon sonnerati)'' which is known from no physical remains and has been described based solely on a 19th century manuscript. Its status as a valid taxon is contentious, and even if it is indeed valid, the lack of any physical material indicates that it most likely has gone extinct. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10755837 Shrews M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piebald Shrew
The piebald shrew (''Diplomesodon pulchellum'') is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to to in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. It is the only extant member of the genus ''Diplomesodon''. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: ''Diplomesodon sonnerati Sonnerat's shrew (''Diplomesodon sonnerati'' or ''Crocidura sonnerati'') is a species of shrew that was first described by Pierre Sonnerat from Pondicherry somewhere in 1813. Description It was described as being larger than the commoner '' Sun ...'' (Sonnerat's shrew). It was described again in 2018 to meet certain validity requirements of the ICZN code. References *Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005. Mammals of Central Asia White-toothed shrews Mammals described in 1823 {{whitetoothed-shrew-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being 1.806 million years Before Present (BP). Publications from earlier years may use either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology. The name is a combination of Ancient Greek grc, label=none, πλεῖστος, pleīstos, most and grc, label=none, καινός, kainós (latinized as ), 'new'. At the end of the preceding Pliocene, the previously isolated North and South American continents were joined by the Isthmus of Panama, causing Great American Interchang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holocene
The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene together form the Quaternary period. The Holocene has been identified with the current warm period, known as MIS 1. It is considered by some to be an interglacial period within the Pleistocene Epoch, called the Flandrian interglacial.Oxford University Press – Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever (book) – "Holocene Humanity" section https://books.google.com/books?id=7P0_sWIcBNsC The Holocene corresponds with the rapid proliferation, growth and impacts of the human species worldwide, including all of its written history, technological revolutions, development of major civilizations, and overall significant transition towards urban living in the present. The human impact on modern-era Earth and its ecosystems may be considered of global si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Von Brandt
Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian natural history, naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia. Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Wittenberg and the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Berlin. In 1831 he emigrated to Russia, and soon was appointed director of the Zoological Museum of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Brandt encouraged the collection of native animals, many of which were not represented in the museum. Many specimens began to arrive from the expeditions of Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov, Severtzov, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Przhevalsky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf, Middendorff, Leopold von Schrenck, Schrenck and Gustav Radde. He described several birds collected by Russian explorers off the Pacific Coast of North America, including Brandt's cormorant, red-legged kittiwake and spectacled eider. As a paleontologist, Brandt ranks among the best. He was also an entomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomesodon Pulchellum
The piebald shrew (''Diplomesodon pulchellum'') is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to to in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. It is the only extant member of the genus ''Diplomesodon''. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: ''Diplomesodon sonnerati Sonnerat's shrew (''Diplomesodon sonnerati'' or ''Crocidura sonnerati'') is a species of shrew that was first described by Pierre Sonnerat from Pondicherry somewhere in 1813. Description It was described as being larger than the commoner ''Suncu ...'' (Sonnerat's shrew). It was described again in 2018 to meet certain validity requirements of the ICZN code. References *Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005. Mammals of Central Asia White-toothed shrews Mammals described in 1823 {{whitetoothed-shrew-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomesodon Fossorius
''Diplomesodon'' is a genus of shrew that contains a single extant species, the piebald shrew ''(Diplomesodon pulchellum)''. Taxonomy An extinct species named '' Diplomesodon fossorius'' is known from the Early Pleistocene of South Africa, very distant from the current Caspian region The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ... distribution of the piebald shrew. Another potential member of this genus is the enigmatic Sonnerat's shrew ''(Diplomesodon sonnerati)'' which is known from no physical remains and has been described based solely on a 19th century manuscript. Its status as a valid taxon is contentious, and even if it is indeed valid, the lack of any physical material indicates that it most likely has gone extinct. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10755837 Shrews M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomesodon Sonnerati
Sonnerat's shrew (''Diplomesodon sonnerati'' or ''Crocidura sonnerati'') is a species of shrew that was first described by Pierre Sonnerat from Pondicherry somewhere in 1813. Description It was described as being larger than the commoner ''Suncus murinus'' and without a musky smell. Males were shiny black with a white band or patch on the middle of the back. Females also had the white patch but were grey. Sonnerat described the shrew as being five and a half inches 49 mmfrom the head to the base of the tail and the tail being one inch and one line or 29 mm. Taxonomy Since no specimen of the species exists, both its taxonomic description and its generic placement remain in question. The supposed shrew species was given a scientific name by Anthony Cheke which was first published in 2012 but the description was not considered valid by some as the holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrew
Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to different families or orders. Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are. It is, in fact, a much closer relative of hedgehogs and moles; shrews are related to rodents only in that both belong to the Boreoeutheria magnorder. Shrews have sharp, spike-like teeth, whereas rodents have gnawing front incisor teeth. Shrews are distributed almost worldwide; among the major tropical and temperate land masses, only New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand have no native shrews; in South America shrews appeared only relatively recently, as a result of the Great American Interchange, and are present only in the northern Andes. The shrew family has 385 known species, making it the fourth-most spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piebald Shrew
The piebald shrew (''Diplomesodon pulchellum'') is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to to in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. It is the only extant member of the genus ''Diplomesodon''. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: ''Diplomesodon sonnerati Sonnerat's shrew (''Diplomesodon sonnerati'' or ''Crocidura sonnerati'') is a species of shrew that was first described by Pierre Sonnerat from Pondicherry somewhere in 1813. Description It was described as being larger than the commoner '' Sun ...'' (Sonnerat's shrew). It was described again in 2018 to meet certain validity requirements of the ICZN code. References *Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005. Mammals of Central Asia White-toothed shrews Mammals described in 1823 {{whitetoothed-shrew-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Pleistocene
The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, being the earliest division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently estimated to span the time between 2.580 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 0.773 ± 0.005 Ma. The term Early Pleistocene applies to both the Gelasian Age (to 1.800 ± 0.005 Ma) and the Calabrian Age. While the Gelasian and the Calabrian have officially been defined by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) to effectively constitute the Early Pleistocene, the succeeding Chibanian and Tarantian ages have yet to be ratified. These proposed ages are unofficially termed the Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of . South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town respectively. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspian Region
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia. It covers a surface area of (excluding the highly saline lagoon of Garabogazköl to its east) and a volume of . It has a salinity of approximately 1.2% (12 g/L), about a third of the salinity of average seawater. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast. The sea stretches nearly from north to south, with an average width of . Its gross coverage is and the surface is about below sea level. Its main freshwater inflow, Europe's longest river, the Volga, enters at the shallow north end. Two deep basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
