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Crocidura lucina Dippenaar 1980

Description

Crocidura lucina Dippenaar 1980

Crocidura lucina Dippenaar 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32: 134-138.

Type Locality: Ethiopia, "Web River, near Dinshu".

Vernacular Names: Lucina's Shrew.

Distribution: Montane moorlands of E Ethiopia.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Part of the Ethiopian radiation of Crocidura with 2n = 36 and FN = 52 (Lavrenchenko et al., 1997: Fig. 5, as Crocidura sp. A., Lavrenchenko, pers. comm.). Species confined to the Afro-Alpine moorland (Hutterer and Yalden, 1990).

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 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dippenaar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Species
lucina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura lucina Dippenaar, 1980 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Dippenaar, N. J. 1980. New species of Crocidura from Ethiopia and northern Tanzania (Mammalia: Soricidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 125 - 154.
  • Lavrenchenko, L. A., A. N. Milishnikov, V. M. Aniskin, A. A. Warshavsky, and W. Gebrekidan. 1997. The genetic diversity of small mammals of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science, 20: 213 - 233.
  • Hutterer, R., and D. W. Yalden. 1990. Two new species of shrews from a relic forest in the Bale Mountain, Ethiopia. Pp. 63 - 72, in Vertebrates in the Tropics (G. Peters, and R. Hutterer, eds.). Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, 424 pp.