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Crocidura elgonius Osgood 1910

Description

Crocidura elgonius Osgood, 1910. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:369.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Mt. Elgon, Kirui.

DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Elgon (W. Kenya); N.E. Tanzania.

COMMENT: Regarded as a distinct species related to suaveolens; see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:13.

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 73, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Osgood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Species
elgonius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura elgonius Osgood, 1910 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • 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.