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Crocidura flavescens
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Crocidura flavescens (I. Geoffroy 1827)
[Crocidura] flavescens (I. Geoffroy 1827), Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 11: 324.
Type Locality: "La Cafrerie et le pays des Hottentots" = King William's Town, South Africa.
Vernacular Names: Greater Red Musk Shrew.
Synonyms: Crocidura capensis (A. Smith 1833); Crocidura cinnamomeus (Lichtenstein 1829); Crocidura knysnae Roberts 1946; Crocidura rutilus (Sundevall 1846).
Distribution: South Africa.
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.
Discussion: For correct original citation see Ellerman et al. (1953). Does not include olivieri; see Maddalena et al. (1987) and comments under that species. Reviewed by Meester (1963). Karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 74) described by Maddalena et al. (1987).
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 230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BFF703DCC4E4C98D20FE0AB477F0FE06 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/B110F2545E3F473BF92B098521AB3BB3 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231544908 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- I. Geoffroy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- Species
- flavescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crocidura flavescens (Geoffroy, 1827) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Smith, A. 1833 - 1834. An epitome of African Zoology; or, a concise description of the objects of the animal kingdom inhabiting Africa, its islands and seas. South African Quarterly Journal, 2: 16 - 32, 49 - 64, 81 - 96, 113 - 128, 145 - 160, 169 - 192, 209 - 224, 233 - 248.
- Roberts, A. 1946. Descriptions of numerous new subspecies of mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 20: 303 - 328.
- Sundevall, C. J. 1846. Methodisk ofversigt af Idislande djuren Linnes Pecora. Kongliga Vetenskaps-Ajademiens Handlinger for ar 1844: 121 - 210.
- Maddalena, T., A. - M. Mehmeti, G. Bonner, and P. Vogel. 1987. The karyotype of Crocidura flavescens (Mammalia, Insectivora) in South Africa. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 52: 129 - 132.
- Meester, J. 1963. A systematic revision of the shrew genus Crocidura in Southern Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir, 13: 1 - 127.