[Taxacom] Water Shrews

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 31-May-20 12:07 p.m., Kenneth Kinman wrote:

> The genera Neomys and Nectogale (the most specialized aquatic 
> water shrew) are apparently sister groups.  However, genus Sorex is on a 
> different branch, so the American Water Shrew must have become aquatic 
> independently.   See the cladograms (Figures 1 and 2) in this 2016 paper:
> https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/33/12/3095/2450090

On 31-May-20 12:03 p.m., Barry OConnor wrote:

> Those genera are placed in different tribes of Soricinae, implying convergent aquatic adaptations. 

* thanks for this - it's what I suspected, but I just wanted to make sure.

https://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/2011/07/water-shrew-habitat.html 
gives a few words about our history with Water Shrews.

fred.
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> How are Eurasian (Neomys) and American (Sorex palustris) Water Shrews
> related? Were the aquatic adaptations independently evolved, as the
> taxonomy would seem to imply? -  fred.
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