Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834
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Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834
Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834, in: Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes-Orient.: 127.
Type Locality: " Senegal ", restricted to region between Dakar and St. Luis by Hutterer (1984).
Vernacular Names: Savanna Path Shrew.
Synonyms: Crocidura bolivari Morales Agacino 1934; Crocidura hindei Thomas 1904; Crocidura suahelae Heller 1912; Crocidura tamrinensis Vesmanis and Vesmanis 1980.
Distribution: Sahelien and Sudan savanna from S Morocco to Senegal and east to Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya; perhaps further south.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Revised by Hutterer (1984); Possibly includes suahelae, which may alternatively belong to zaphiri. A member of the flavescens species group (Maddalena, 1990), as shown by the karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 66; Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). Isolated Maroccan population reviewed by Vogel et al. (2000).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BFF703DCC4E4C98D20FE0AB477F0FE06 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4EBC65AB9C49DE30532370FB7480F711 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231544801 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- I. Geoffroy
- Species
- viaria
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crocidura viaria Geoffroy, 1834 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Heller, E. 1912. New rodents from British East Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 59: 1 - 20.
- Vesmanis, I. E., and A. Vesmanis. 1980. Ein Nachweis des Siebenschlafers, Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766) aus Eulengewollen von der Insel Elba, Italien. Faunistische Abhandlungen, 7 (17): 167 - 170.
- Maddalena, T., and M. Ruedi. 1994. Chromosomal evolution in the genus Crocidura (Insectivora: Soricidae). Pp. 335 - 344, in Advances in the biology of shrews (J. F. Merritt, G. L. Kirkland, Jr., and R. K. Rose, eds.). Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Special Publication, 18: 1 - 458.
- Vogel, P., M. Lawrence, and A. Aghnaj. 2000. Shrews (Soricidae, Mammalia) of the National Park Souss-Massa, Morocco. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 107: 591 - 599.