Javan hidden shrew
The Javan hidden shrew or Javan long-tailed shrew is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the island of Java in Indonesia.
Taxonomy
It was described in 2014 based on its morphological distinctiveness, with phylogenetic analysis also supporting it as being a distinct species. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that it is a sister species to the Sumatran long-tailed shrew, from which it diverged during the Miocene, about 9.5 million years ago.The specific name, abscondita, means 'hidden' in Latin and is a reference to the undescribed mammal species of Southeast Asia. The authors who described the species originally used the spelling "absconditus", but the ending of the specific name has been amended to agree with the grammatical gender of the genus name.