Neurotrichus skoczeni Zijlstra, 2010

Rzebik-Kowalska, Barbara, 2014, Review of the Pliocene and Pleistocene Talpidae (Soricomorpha, Mammalia) of Poland, Palaeontologia Electronica (26 A) 26, pp. 1-26 : 11-12

? Neurotrichus skoczeni Zijlstra, 2010

1993 Neurotrichus minor Skoczeń ; Skoczeń, p. 130, fig. 4.

1994 Neurotrichus minor Skoczeń ; Rzebik-Kowalska, p. 80, 88.

2005 Neurotrichus minor Skoczeń ; Rzebik-Kowalska, p. 127.

2009 Neurotrichus minor Skoczeń ; Rzebik-Kowalska, p. 9, 21.

2010 Neurotrichus skoczeni Zijlstra ; Zijlstra, p. 1903.

Material. Węże 2. Holotype - right humerus, no. ZPAL /M-2/2 and isolated left M1. MNI = 1, catalogue number ZPAL /M-2. The material is housed in the IPPAS in Warsaw.

Description. A detailed description, measurements, and photos of specimens are given in Skoczeń (1993).

Systematic position. The M1 and humerus described by Skoczeń (1993) as N. minor from the Polish locality of Węże 2 dated to the Early/Late Pliocene boundary (Ruscinian/Villanyan, MN15/16) are very similar to? Neurotrichus polonicus but smaller.

In 2010 Zijlstra found that Dalquest and Burgner (1941) had already described a new subspecies of Recent Neurotrichus gibbsi as N. g. minor from western Washington in the US. In this situation, Skoczeń’s name, Neurotrichus minor , became a primary homonym and is invalid. In the place of Neurotrichus minor, Zijlstra (2010) proposed a new name, Neurotrichus skoczeni , which is accepted in this paper.