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Crocidura allex Osgood 1910
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Crocidura allex Osgood 1910
Crocidura allex Osgood 1910, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10 (3): 20.
Type Locality: Kenya, "Naivasha, British East Africa ".
Vernacular Names: East African Highland Shrew.
Synonyms: Crocidura alpina Heller 1910; Crocidura zinki Heim de Balsac 1957.
Distribution: Higlands of SW Kenya; Mt. Kilimanjaro, Meru and Ngorogoro, N Tanzania.
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.
Discussion: Gureev (1979) listed alpina as a distinct species without comment. Common in the afro-alpine zone at 3500 m on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Shore and Garbett, 1991). For synonyms see Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 224, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Osgood
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- Species
- allex
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crocidura allex Osgood, 1910 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Osgood, W. H. 1910. Eight new African rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 5: 276 - 282.
- Heim de Balsac, H. 1957. Insectivores Soricidae du Mont Cameroun. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere, 85: 501 - 672.
- Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).
- Shore, R. F., and S. D. Garbett. 1991. Notes on the small mammals of the Shira Plateau, Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mammalia, 55: 601 - 607.
- Heim de Balsac, H., and J. Meester. 1977. Order Insectivora. Part 1. Pp. 1 - 29, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.