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Crocidura zaphiri Dollman 1915

Description

Crocidura zaphiri Dollman 1915

Crocidura zaphiri Dollman 1915, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 509.

Type Locality: Ethiopia, Kaffa, Charada Forest.

Vernacular Names: Zaphir's Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura simiolus Hollister 1916.

Distribution: Kaffa Prov. (S Ethiopia); Kaimosi, Kisumu (Kenya).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes simiolus; see Osgood (1936:224). May also include mutesae and suahelae (here questionably listed in viaria), in which case it would be a widely distributed species; see Hutterer and Yalden (1990:70).

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 255, 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
zaphiri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura zaphiri 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.
  • 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.