Rzebikia
| Rzebikia Temporal range: Pliocene - Early Pleistocene | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Talpidae |
| Tribe: | Neurotrichini |
| Genus: | †Rzebikia Kotsakis & Piras, 2016 |
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| †Rzebikia polonicus Skoczeń, 1980 | |
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Rzebikia is an extinct genus of mole from the Plio-Pleistocene of Poland. It is closely related to the American shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii) and had formerly been placed in the same genus.
Taxonomy
Two species are assigned to this genus, though both were originally described as belonging to the genus Neurotrichus. Rzebikia polonica and Rzebikia skoczeni. R. polonica was described in 1980 while R. skoczeni was described in 2004, originally under the name Neurotrichus minor, though it was found to be preoccupied by a subspecies of American shrew-mole.[1] In 2014, the two species were moved out of Neurotrichus into their current genus.[2]
References
- ^ Zijlstra, Jelle S. (2010). "Neurotrichus skoczeni, new name for Neurotrichus minor Skoczen, 1993, preoccupied". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (6): 1903. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1903Z. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521606. S2CID 85111037.
- ^ Sansalone, G. (2014). "New Systematic Insights about Plio-Pleistocene Moles from Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61 (1): 221–229. doi:10.4202/app.00116.2014. hdl:11573/896243.