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Crocidura sericea

Description

Crocidura sericea (Sundevall, 1843). K. Sven. Vetenskapsakad Akad. Handl., 1842:173, 177.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, near Bahr-el-Abiad.

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya and W. Ethiopia to Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.

COMMENT: Includes beta, diana, hindei, macrodon and marrensis; see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:23 who also included bolivari in sericea; Vesmanis and Vesmanis, 1979, Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 36(2):39, regarded bolivari as a distinct species; RH considers bolivari a subspecies of sericea. Gureev, 1979:408, listed beta and hindei as distinct species without comment.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007005120001 as C. sericea.

5301403007005013001 as C. beta.

5301403007005054001 as C. hindei.

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 82, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Sundevall
Species
sericea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura sericea (Sundevall, 1843) 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.
  • Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).