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Crocidura ultima Dollman 1915

Description

Crocidura ultima Dollman 1915

Crocidura ultima Dollman 1915, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 517.

Type Locality: Kenya, Nyeri District, Jombeni Range.

Vernacular Names: Ultimate Shrew.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Dippenaar (1980:126), following Allen (1939:46), recognized ultima as a full species within the littoralis monax group.

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 252, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dollman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Species
ultima
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura ultima 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.
  • Dippenaar, N. J. 1980. New species of Crocidura from Ethiopia and northern Tanzania (Mammalia: Soricidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 125 - 154.
  • Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.