Parablarinella, Bannikova, Anna A., Jenkins, Paulina D., Solovyeva, Evgeniya N., Pavlova, Svetlana V., Demidova, Tatiana B., Simanovsky, Sergey A., Sheftel, Boris I., Lebedev, Vladimir S., Fang, Yun, Dalen, Love & Abramov, Alexei V., 2019

Bannikova, Anna A., Jenkins, Paulina D., Solovyeva, Evgeniya N., Pavlova, Svetlana V., Demidova, Tatiana B., Simanovsky, Sergey A., Sheftel, Boris I., Lebedev, Vladimir S., Fang, Yun, Dalen, Love & Abramov, Alexei V., 2019, Who are you, Griselda? A replacement name for a new genus of the Asiatic short-tailed shrews (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae): molecular and morphological analyses with the discussion of tribal affinities, ZooKeys 888, pp. 133-158 : 133

Parablarinella nom. nov.

Pantherina He in He et al. 2018, not Pantherina Curletti, 1998 ( Coleoptera ).

Type species. Blarinella griselda Thomas, 1912.

Distribution. Endemic to China. Known from a few specimens from southern Gansu, north-western Sichuan and southern Shaanxi.

Etymology. The name of the new genus is derived from the Greek word παρά “para” (near) and the generic name Blarinella previously attributed to this taxon. Gender is feminine.

Amplified diagnosis. A medium-sized shrew, externally similar in appearance to Blarinella . Genetically and karyotypically distinct from that genus and distinguished by a combination of the following craniodental characters. Angle of principal to posterior cusp of I1 moderately shallow, greater than 90°; Un3 smaller than Un2 but not markedly so; lingual margin of P4 curved, hypocone absent; talonid of m1 and m2 with a low distinct mesoconid and a separate, distinct entoconid with a very low indistinct entoconid crest scarcely linking to the metaconid; talonid of m3 with a small but distinct mesoconid. The foramen ovale is centrally positioned on the inferior articular facet; small foramen present on rostrum above P4, posterior to the rostral fossa, within depression leading to the infraorbital canal; reticulation of the wall of the mesopterygoid fossa extends to the base of the fossa and posteriorly beyond the hamular processes and close to the level of the vidian foramina; mandibular foramen well separated from ramal foramen and clearly visible in lingual view; ramal foramen posterodorsally positioned, largely concealed within the ventral border of the temporal fossa, not or barely visible in lingual view.