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FIGURE 2. Soricilichus scutisorex Fain, 1970 in Review of the fur-mite genus Soricilichus Fain, 1970 (Acariformes: Chirodiscidae) — symbionts of the African shrews of the subfamily Crocidurinae (Soricomorpha: Soricidae)

FIGURE 2. Soricilichus scutisorex Fain, 1970, details of male. A—opisthosoma in ventral view; B—same in lateral view; Cleg I in dorsal view; D—leg II in dorsal view; E—leg III in ventral view; F—leg IV in ventral view.

Fig. 9 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 9. Architecture of the guard hairs in an adult male of Heliophobius argenteocinereus. A, D, G, J cross sections of guard hairs of different types (coarse and guard hairs); B, E, H, K longitudinal sections at a base and a shield of the stem (from left to right); C, F, I, L – ornament of cuticle along the stem, from a base to a shield (left to right). SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 11 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 11. Species-specificity of cuticular ornamentation at the hair base and constriction in guard hairs of some representatives of Talpidae. SEM micrographs.

Fig. 5 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 5. Architecture of guard hairs in an adult male of Scapanus townsendii. A, D, G – cross sections through a guard hair from the hair base to the shield (left to right); B, E, H longitudinal sections through a guard hair; C, F, I – cuticular ornamentation along the shaft, from the hair base to the shield (left to right, the narrowing of the shaft is marked with an arrow). SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 3 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 3. Variability of the shaft width/cuticle height index along the shaft in the guard hairs from the withers in the studied species. A – Talpidae and Bathyergidae; B – Chrysochloridae.

Fig. 2 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 2. Architecture of guard hairs in an adult male of Talpa altaica. A, E, H – cross sections through the hair along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right); B, F, I longitudinal sections through the hair along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right); С – cuticular ornamentation along a shaft from the base to shield (left to right); D same along the shaft from the hair base to the region below the shield (top to bottom); G, J same along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right). SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 8 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 8. Architecture of guard hairs in adult males of the studied species of Chrysospalax, Cryptochloris, and Eremitalpa. A – cross sections through a hair along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (from left to right); E same at the hair base and in the shield (left to right); H – same in the shield; B – longitudinal sections through a hair along the shaft at the hair base and in the shield (left to right); F, I – same in the shield; C – medulla in the shield; D, G, J – cuticular ornamentation along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right). SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 6 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 6. Architecture of coarse hairs and guard hairs in an adult male of Urotrichus talpoides. A, D, G, J, M cross sections through a hair along the shaft, from the hair base to the shield (left to right, the flattening of the shaft is indicated by arrows); B, E, H, K, N longitudinal sections along the shaft, from the hair base to the shield (left to right); C, F, I, L, O – cuticular ornamentation along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right, in F and I, the narrowing of the shaft is indicated by arrows). SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 7 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 7. Architecture of guard hairs in adult males of the studied species of Amblysomus, Calcochloris, Carpitalpa, and Chrysochloris. A, J – cross sections through a hair along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right); E, M same in the shield; B – longitudinal sections of a hair along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right); F, K, N – same in the shield; G, H, O – medullar architecture in the shield; C, I, L, P – cuticular ornamentation along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right); D same at the hair tip. SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 1 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 1. Measuring protocol for the hair structures in the studied species: As – maximum surface area of the medullar air spaces; D – maximum shaft diameter; d – minimum shaft diameter; H –maximum length of the cuticular scale; h – maximum height of the transverse medullar septum - 'disk'; S – surface area of the hair cross section; s – surface area of the medullar column; hs – surface area of the septum -'disk'; W – shield width; w – maximum width of the medullar column in the shield. A flag ‒ diameter of the pigment granule.

Fig. 4 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 4. Architecture of hairs in an adult male of Mogera robusta. A, D, K cross sections through a guard hair along the shaft from the hair base to the shield (left to right); B, E, H longitudinal sections through a guard hair; G cross sections through different hair types: coarse hair (arrow) and guard hairs; C, F, J – cuticular ornamentation of a guard hair from the hair base to the shield (left to right); I, L same in a coarse hair (left to right). SEM micrographs. 10 μm scale.

Fig. 10 in A comparative SEM study of the guard hair architecture in subterranean moles (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), golden moles (Chrysochloridae, Afrosoricidae), and silvery mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Fig. 10. Visualization of metric data for guard hairs in the studied species. A – Talpidae and Bathyergidae, B – Chrysochloridae. Icon plots (graphs with pictograms in the form of profiles). Legend (left to right): D/d, base; D/d, shield; S/ s, W/w; W/h; As/hs; W/H, base/constriction, below shield, shield. Initial data are shown in tables 1Sup and 2Sup.

FIGURE 3 in Molecular phylogeny of Asiatic Short-Tailed Shrews, genus Blarinella Thomas, 1911 (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae) and its taxonomic implications

FIGURE 3. Phylogeny of the genus Blarinella derived from maximum parsimony and neighbor joining analyses of cyt-b and cyt-b + 16S rRNA + ApoB fragments. Neighbor Joining (NJ) and Maximum parsimony (MP) bootstrap values of cyt-b are shown above the branches; MP and NJ bootstrap values of cyt-b + 16S rRNA + ApoB are shown under the branches.

FIGURE 4 in Molecular phylogeny of Asiatic Short-Tailed Shrews, genus Blarinella Thomas, 1911 (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae) and its taxonomic implications

FIGURE 4. Networks of the cyt-b and ApoB haplotypes in Blarinella. The missing haplotypes in the network are represented by black dots. Each mutation step is shown as a short line connecting neighboring haplotypes; number of mutations between haplotypes, if greater than one, are indicated near branches. Haplotype designations can be found in Tables 1.

FIGURE 2 in Molecular phylogeny of Asiatic Short-Tailed Shrews, genus Blarinella Thomas, 1911 (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae) and its taxonomic implications

FIGURE 2. Phylogeny of the genus Blarinella derived from maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of cyt-b and cyt-b + 16S rRNA + ApoB fragments. Node values above branches indicate ML bootstrap values and Bayesian posterior probabilities of cyt-b; node numbers under the branches indicate Bayesian posterior probabilities and ML bootstrap values of cyt-b +16S rRNA + ApoB.

FIGURE 1 in Molecular phylogeny of Asiatic Short-Tailed Shrews, genus Blarinella Thomas, 1911 (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae) and its taxonomic implications

FIGURE 1. Map of China showing collecting localities of all individuals used in this study. The sampling localities and site number correspond to sample codes described in Table 1.

Figure 1 in How common is gigantism in insular fossil shrews? Examining the 'Island Rule' in soricids (Mammalia: Soricomorpha) from Mediterranean Islands using new body mass estimation models

Figure 1. Diagram of Mediterranean Islands showing endemic genera and species of soricids from the Plio–Quaternary to the present: white shrew silhouettes, current species; grey shrew silhouettes, extinct or with presence in the fossil record. From west to east: species of Nesiotites (extinct) from the Gymnesic Islands; species of Asoriculus (extinct) from the Corso-Sardinian complex; Asoriculus burgioi (extinct) from Sicily; Crocidura sicula sicula (present in the fossil record and extant) and Crocidura sicula esuae (extinct) from the Sicilian–Maltese archipelago; Crocidura zimmermanni (present in the fossil record and extant) from Crete; and Crocidura suaveolens praecypria (extinct) from Cyprus. See text for references.

Figure 2 in How common is gigantism in insular fossil shrews? Examining the 'Island Rule' in soricids (Mammalia: Soricomorpha) from Mediterranean Islands using new body mass estimation models

Figure 2. Chronological framework of the species used in the study: in black, species related to the tribe Nectogalini; in grey, Crocidura species. The circles highlight the species analysed from different sites sorted biochronologically (connected by a thick line), the squares highlight the species analysed from only one site, and the empty squares highlight the mainland (ancestor) species. Below the species: the site, locality, and molar/s used for estimating body mass are listed.

Figure 4 in How common is gigantism in insular fossil shrews? Examining the 'Island Rule' in soricids (Mammalia: Soricomorpha) from Mediterranean Islands using new body mass estimation models

Figure 4. Estimations of body masses (in g) of Nesiotites species (row A, lower molars) and Crocidura zimmermanni (row B, lower molars; and row C, upper molars) from different sites ordered chronologically (see Table 2 for site acronyms). The first column shows the predictions of body mass using all of the estimators (white square, LM1; black circle, WM1; grey circle, TRLM1; grey square, AAM1; white circle, TRAAM1) and the following columns represent each measurement separately (LM1, WM1, TRLM1, AAM1, and TRAAM1, respectively). In order to observe the fluctuation of the points, we linked the points with a line. Dotted lines in Nesiotites diagrams (row A) separate the three statistically different subgroups.

Figure 3 in How common is gigantism in insular fossil shrews? Examining the 'Island Rule' in soricids (Mammalia: Soricomorpha) from Mediterranean Islands using new body mass estimation models

Figure 3. Measurements of mandible, cranium, and postcranial bones. A, cranium: WOC, width of the occipital condyles. B, mandible: TRLM/1, tooth row length of lower molars. C, femur: FL, femur length; FTDp, proximal femoral transversal diameter; FAPDd, distal femoral anteroposterior diameter; FTDd, distal femoral transversal diameter. D, humerus: HL, humerus length; HAPDp, proximal humeral anteroposterior diameter; HAPDd, distal humeral anteroposterior diameter; HTDd, distal humeral transversal diameter. E, tibia: TL, tibia length; TAPDp, proximal tibia anteroposterior diameter; TTDp, proximal tibia transversal diameter; TTDd, distal tibia transversal diameter.