长尾大麝鼩生态学特性初步研究

长尾大麝是我地农田小兽优势种群,平均密度（２ｈｍ２百夹捕获率）４９８％,４月、１１月出现两个密度高峰,３～９月份为雌兽怀孕繁殖期,平均胎仔数为（５±１３）只,预计寿命在１～１５年。长尾大麝为杂食性动物,取食春播作物种子。以夜间活动为主,耐低温,会游泳,洞中基本不储粮,作物郁蔽的地段分布多,在我地是需要控制的对象。     

东阳江麝鼩与黄山小麝鼩分类地位商榷

东阳江麝鼩和黄山小麝鼩是最近分别依据地理位置相近的两地点采集标本描记的新物种,从形态学和分子生物学方面对这两个麝鼩新物种进行比较后,发现这两个物种形态描述上多处相似,外形和头骨测量数据多处重叠;线粒体和核基因分析表明两个物种在分子系统树上混杂在一起,没有相互呈现单系;两模式标本Cytb的遗传距离仅为1.1％;在GenB...     

江西省两种兽类新纪录——东阳江麝鼩和安徽麝鼩

<正>麝鼩属(Crocidura)隶属于哺乳纲(Mammals)劳亚食虫目(Eulipotyphla)鼩鼱科(Soricidae),广泛分布于亚洲、欧洲和非洲。麝鼩属是哺乳动物中物种最多的属,已记录有198个物种(Wilson and Mittermeier, 2018)。麝鼩属物种体型较小、形态保守,属内多个物种的分类和分布存在较大争议。我国麝鼩属物种丰富,目前记录有14种麝鼩在我国分布(魏辅文等,2021)。     

贵州六盘水发现东阳江麝鼩

在贵州省六盘水市杨梅乡慕尼克村,利用陷阱法捕捉到3号麝鼩属(Crocidura)标本.本次采集标本的体形较小,头体长(49.0±0.8)mm,尾长[(41.8±4.2)mm]略短于头体长(尾长/头体长为85％).背毛呈浅灰褐色,腹毛颜色浅于背毛,呈灰色.尾部双色,背侧黑褐色,腹侧淡于背侧.前足背部白色,后足则为淡灰色.尾近乎裸露,尾基约1/3着生稀疏白色长毛.颅全长(15.92±0.55)mm,脑颅高(4.75±0.18)mm.上门齿1枚,有一长而大的前尖和一小而矮的后尖.上单尖齿3枚,第1单尖齿最大,第2单尖齿略大于第3单尖齿,1枚第四前臼齿(P4),3枚臼齿.上述特征与东阳江麝鼩(C.dongyangjiangensis)模式标本的描述和鉴定特征基本一致,因此将3号采集标本鉴定为东阳江麝鼩.基于Cytb基因进行分子系统发育分析,采集标本与麝鼩属物种中的东阳江麝鼩遗传距离最近,在0.004～0.027之间.系统发生树显示,3号标本与东阳江麝鼩构成一个单系进化分支,进一步证实本次采集的3号标本是东阳江麝鼩,为贵州省分布新记录种.     

灰麝鼩的种群数量变动

汇集了1989～1996年云南保山市坝区的调查资料和其它地区的文献资料,对灰麝鼩种群数量变动进行了分析,灰麝鼩集中分布于海拔1650m的保山市坝区,具有较强的区域性和海拔高度的局限性特征.种群相对数量高峰分别出现在6月和8～12月.灰麝鼩的年变动在保山坝区居民区鼠型小兽群落中组成相对稳定.     

河南信阳发现台湾灰麝鼩

于2013年和2018年在河南信阳新县与浉河共采集到3号鼩鼱成年个体标本,基于齿色特征初步鉴定为劳亚食虫目鼩鼱科麝鼩属(Crocidura)物种。对所采3号标本的Cyt b基因进行PCR扩增和测序,测序结果与GenBank数据库进行比对,并通过构建系统发育关系树进一步明确所采3只标本的分类地位。根据标本形态、头骨特征,结合分子生物学证据,确定该物种为台湾灰麝鼩(C.tanakae),为河南哺乳动物分布新记录种。标本现存于郑州大学生物多样性与生态学研究所(编号分别为IBE20131005、IBE2018100501和IBE2018100502)。     

河北省兽类的新纪录——水麝鼩

1958年7月北京大学生物系师生10余人在北京门头沟区燕家台西龙门涧作兽类调查时,采得一个食虫目鼩鼱科的水麝鼩Chimarrogale platycephala hima-ayica(Gray)标本。 在鼩鼱科中为体型较大者,吻尖,尾长稍短于体长,足发达,前后肢皆具五趾,爪不长,但相当锐利钩曲。     

湖北省兽类新纪录-台湾灰麝鼩

<正>台湾灰麝鼩(Crocidura tanakae Kuroda,1938)属于鼩形目(Soricomorpha)鼩鼱科(Soricidae)麝鼩属,在台湾地区分布较广(Fang et al.,1997),其模式标本产于台湾台中市南投县。其后,Ellerman和Morrison-Scott (1951)等认为其是灰麝鼩(Crocidura attenuata)的亚种或同物异名(Ellerman     

White-toothed shrews (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Crocidura) of coastal islands of Vietnam

New findings of the white-toothed shrews (Crocidura spp.) from offshore islands of Vietnam are reported. The species identifications have been confirmed by the analysis of complete mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (1140 bp). Crocidura phuquocensis is the only species found in the Phu Quoc Island. Crocidura fuliginosa has been recorded from two islands of the Con Dao Archipelago (Con Son and Bai Canh). The occurrence of Crocidura fuliginosa in Vietnam has been genetically confirmed for the first time. Crocidura attenuata has been collected from the Cat Ba Island for the first time, and this finding corresponds well with the proposal that the species' distribution is confined to the north and east of the Red River only.     

Food consumption by fish populations in the Warta River,Poland, before and after impoundment

The impact of impoundment on the energy budget and gross ecological efficiency (K ₁) of fish populations in sites upstream from the backwater (AB) and downstream of the dam (CD) of a manmade reservoir (17.6 km²) located in the middle reaches of the lowland Warta River (808 km long), was investigated.Consumption (MJ ha^–1 yr^-1) in four years following the reservoir's impoundment was 34–74% lower in site AB, and 43–75% in site CD than before the impoundment. K ₁ of investigated species was higher before the impoundment and only pike exhibited an inverse efficiency trend. Significant differences were also observed in the diet of certain dominant fish species, which resulted from a change in the food supply as well as a reduction in their life span after the river was dammed.     

Mediterranean populations of the lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens group): an unexpected puzzle of Pleistocene survivors and prehistoric introductions

An earlier study revealed the strong phylogeographical structure of the lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens group) within the northern Palaearctic. Here, we aim to reconstruct the colonization history of Mediterranean islands and to clarify the biogeography and phylogeographical relationships of the poorly documented Middle East region with the northern Palaearctic. We performed analyses on 998-bp-long haplotypes of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of 143 samples collected around the Mediterranean basin, including islands and the Middle East. The analyses suggest that the Cypriot shrew belongs to the rare group of relict insular Pleistocene mammal taxa that have survived to the present day. In contrast, the Cretan, Corsican and Menorcan populations were independently introduced from the Middle East during the Holocene. The phylogeographical structure of this temperate Palaearctic species within the Middle East appears to be complex and rich in diversity, probably reflecting fragmentation of the area by numerous mountain chains. Four deeply divergent clades of the C. suaveolens group occur in the area, meaning that a hypothetical contact zone remains to be located in central western Iran.     

Fish bioenergetics model used for estimation of food consumption in a navigation canal with heavy traffic

Fish were sampled in two successive years in a canal in north-west England with heavy boat traffic (10000 mh^–1yr^–1). An energy budget was used to calculate the food consumption of the two most dominant species, roach Rutilus rutilus and gudgeon Gobio gobio. For two subdominant (perch, Perca fluviatilisand ruffe, Gymnocephalus cernuus) and four rare species living there, parameters of the energy budget and prey consumption were estimated using ecological indices calculated for both dominants. The food conversion efficiency was low compared with values for the same species in other habitats, probably because of detritus and scarcity of macrobenthos in the diet. This may have been a result of the heavy boat traffic.     

虎斑乌贼的胚胎耗氧率

为了探究虎斑乌贼胚胎不同发育时期的耗氧率变化和几种生态因子对胚胎发育过程耗氧率的影响,试验采用封闭静水装置,对不同发育时期(12期)的耗氧率进行测定,并研究不同盐度(21、24、27、30、33)、温度(18、21、24、27、30 ℃)和pH(7.0、7.5、8.0、8.5、9.0)对胚胎4个主要发育时期(受精卵期、原肠胚期、器官形成期和内骨骼形成期)耗氧率的影响.结果表明: 胚胎各个发育时期耗氧率不同,随着发育的进程而增大,受精卵期为0.082 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1,而到原肠胚期的耗氧率显著升高,为0.279 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1,到孵化期时,耗氧率达到1.367 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1;盐度对器官形成期和内骨骼形成期的耗氧率均有显著影响(P<0.05),对受精卵期和原肠胚期影响不显著(P>0.05),当盐度为30时,4个发育时期耗氧率均达到最大值,分别为0.082、0.200、0.768和1.301 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1;温度对原肠胚期、器官形成期和内骨骼形成期的耗氧率有显著影响(P<0.05),对受精卵期无显著性影响(P>0.05),在27 ℃时,胚胎4个发育时期均达到最大值,分别为0.082、0.286、0.806和1.338 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1;而pH对4个发育时期的耗氧率均无显著性影响(P>0.05),受精卵期在pH 8.0时达到最大值,为0.116 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1,原肠胚期、器官形成期、内骨骼形成期在pH 8.5时达到最大值,分别为0.281 、0.799和1.130 mg·(100 eggs)^-1·h^-1.     

Echinostome Infections in the Striped-Field Mouse, Apodemus agrarius, and the Ussuri White-Toothed Shrew, Crocidura lasiura, Caught Near the Demilitarized Zone, Gyeonggi-do (Province), Republic of Korea

A total of 1,498 small mammals (rodents and insectivores), including Apodemus agrarius (n = 1,366), Crocidura lasiura (54), Mus musculus (32), Micronytus fortis (28), Eothenomys regulus (9), Micronys minutes (6), and Cricetulus triton (3), were live-trapped in Gyeonggi-do (Province) (Paju-si, Pocheon-gun, and Yeoncheon-gun) near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) from December 2004 to September 2005. A. agrarius was found to be infected with 3 species of echinostomes (Echinostoma hortense, Echinostoma cinetorchis, and Euparyphium murinum), while C. lasiura was infected with 1 species (Echinochasmus japonicas) of echinostome. Other mammals were free from echinostome infections. Total 16 E. hortense were detected in 7 (0.5%) mice, 9 E. cinetorchis from 5 (0.4%), and 3 E. murinum from 2 (0.1%) out of 1.366 A. agrarius examined. E. japonicus was found only in 1 (1.9%; total 3 specimens) C. lasiura. These results demonstrate that A. agrarius and C. lasiura, inhabiting near the DMZ of Gyeonggi-do serve as the natural definitive hosts for several species of echinostomes, although their infection rates are low. This is the first record of natural infections of A. agrarius with E. cinetorchis and C. lasiura with E. japonicus in the Republic of Korea.     

Paradoxical social effects on response to cold during ontogeny of the common white-toothed shrew,Crocidura russula

Summary Postnatal development of thermoregulatory responses to cold differs between shrews measured singly or in groups as a litter. Single shrews increase their metabolic response to cold within 14 days to maintain normothermia. Shrews measured in groups show little or no metabolic response to cold and do not reach normothermia before the 19th day. Lower body temperatures in groups are explained by torpor, which obviously needs the prerequisite of forming a group. Oxygen consumption of the singly measured shrews depends upon body mass.