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Crocidura macowi Dollman 1915
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Crocidura macowi Dollman 1915
Crocidura macowi Dollman 1915, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16: 378.
Type Locality: Kenya, Mt. Nyiro, south of Lake Rudolf [Lake Turkana].
Vernacular Names: Nyiro Shrew.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.
Discussion: Regarded as a synonym of hildegardeae by Osgood (1936), but retained as a species by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977), who noticed similarities to niobe.
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 239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dollman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- Species
- macowi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crocidura macowi Dollman, 1915 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Dollman, G. 1915. On the swamp-rats (Otomys) of East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 15: 149 - 170.
- Osgood, W. H. 1936. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 217 - 256.
- 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.