Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
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Elephantulus brachyrhynchus (A. Smith 1834)
[Macroscelides] brachyrhynchus A. Smith 1834, Rept. Exped. Exploring Central Africa, Vol. 1834: 42.
Type Locality: "The country between Lake Latakoo and the Tropic" (= South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Kuruman, to S Botswana).
Vernacular Names: Short-snouted Elephant Shrew.
Synonyms: Elephantulus albiventer (Osgood 1910); Elephantulus brachyura (Bocage 1882); Elephantulus brevirostris (Schinz 1844); Elephantulus delamerei (Thomas 1901); Elephantulus langi (Roberts 1929); Elephantulus luluae (Matschie 1926); Elephantulus mababiensis (Roberts 1932); Elephantulus selindensis (Roberts 1937); Elephantulus shortridgei (Roberts 1929); Elephantulus tzaneenensis (Roberts 1929).
Distribution: N South Africa; NE Namibia; E and N Botswana; Angola; Zimbabwe; Malawi; Zambia; S Dem. Rep. Congo; Mozambique; Tanzania; Kenya and Uganda.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Corbet (1974:5) and Meester et al. (1986:311) regarded variation as clinal and did not recognize any subspecies.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B610FBFA10C5AE9319AC0744BB7F26FF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/121593C96CDB5644F976355E81216F39 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231543779 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- A. Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Macroscelidea
- Family
- Macroscelididae
- Genus
- Elephantulus
- Species
- brachyrhynchus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elephantulus brachyrhynchus (Smith, 1834) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Osgood, W. H. 1910. Eight new African rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 5: 276 - 282.
- Schinz, H. R. 1844 - 1845. Systematisches verzeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannten Saugethiere, oder, Synopsis mammalium, nach dem Cuvier' schen system. Solothurn, Jent und Gassmann, 2 vols.
- Roberts, A. 1929. New forms of African mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 13: 82 - 121.
- Corbet, G. B. 1974. Family Macroscelididae. Part 1.5, Pp. 1 - 6, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359.