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Crocidura hirta Peters 1852

Description

Crocidura hirta Peters 1852

Crocidura hirta Peters 1852, Reise nach Mossambique, Saugethiere: 78.

Type Locality: Mozambique, Tette, 17°S.

Vernacular Names: Lesser Red Musk Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura annellata Peters 1852; Crocidura beirae Dollman 1915; Crocidura bloyeti Dekeyser 1943; Crocidura canescens Peters 1852; Crocidura deserti Schwann 1906; Crocidura flavidula Thomas and Schwann 1905; Crocidura langi Cabrera 1925; Crocidura luimbalensis Hill and Carter 1937; Crocidura velutina Thomas 1904.

Distribution: Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Gureev (1979) listed beirae and deserti as distinct species; the latter may well be separable. C. bloyeti, formerly listed as a species, is included here because it was based on a juvenile hirta. The Angolan erica may also belong here. The karyotype of hirta (2n = 50, FN = 66) is shared by olivieri, viaria, greenwoodi, and attila (Schlitter et al., 1999). 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 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Peters
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Species
hirta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura hirta Peters, 1852 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Peters, W. C. H. 1852. Reise nach Mossambique. I. Saugethiere. Druck & Verlag, Berlin, 202 pp.
  • Dollman, G. 1915. On the swamp-rats (Otomys) of East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 15: 149 - 170.
  • Thomas, O., and H. Schwann. 1905. The Rudd exploration of South Africa. -- II. List of mammals from the Wakkerstroom District, Southeastern Transvaal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1905: 129 - 138.
  • Cabrera, A. 1925. Genera mammalium: Insectivora, Galeopithecia. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, 232 pp.
  • Hill, J. E., and T. D. Carter. 1937. Ten new rodents from Angola, Africa. American Museum Novitates, 913: 9 pp.
  • 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).
  • Schlitter, D. A., R. Hutterer, T. Maddalena, and L. W. Robbins. 1999. New karyotypes of shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Cameroon and Somalia. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 68: 1 - 13.
  • 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.