Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Chlorotalpa leucorhina

Description

Chlorotalpa leucorhina (Huet, 1885). Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull., 8:8.

TYPE LOCALITY: Africa, "Gulf of Guinea Coast."

DISTRIBUTION: N. Angola; S. Zaire; Cameroon; Central African Repulic.

COMMENT: Includes congicus and luluanus as synonyms and cahni as a subspecies; see Meester, 1974, Part 1.3:5, who placed this species in Chlorotalpa. Included in Chrysochloris by Allen, 1939, Checklist of African Mammals, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 83:1 -763; included in Amblysomus by Simonetta, 1968, Monitore Zool. Ital., 2(suppl):27-55, and Petter, 1981, Mammalia, 45:49 -53.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403004001003001 as Amblysomus leucorhinus.

5301403004002002001 as Chrysochloris congicus.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001

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Biodiversity

Family
Chrysochloridae
Genus
Chlorotalpa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Huet
Species
leucorhina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chlorotalpa leucorhina (Huet, 1885) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Meester, J. A. J. 1974. Order Insectivora, Family Chrysochloridae. Part 1.3. Pp. 1 - 7, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
  • Simonetta, A. M. 1968. A new golden mole from Somalia with an appendix on the taxonomy of the family Chrysochloridae (Mammalia, Insectivora). Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n. s., 2 (Supplemento): 27 - 55.