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Crocidura gracilipes Peters 1870

Description

Crocidura gracilipes Peters, 1870. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870:584.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Auf der Reise nach dem Kilimandscharo "; unidentifiable but usually taken as " Kilimanjaro, Tanzania "; see Moreau et al. (1946:395).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type specimen with unknown origin.

COMMENTS: Does not include hildegardeae; see Demeter and Hutterer (1986:201). A recent examination of the type specimen indicated a conspecificy with C. cyanea.

Notes

Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Species
gracilipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura gracilipes Peters, 1870 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Moreau, R. E., G. H. E. Hopkins, and R. W. Hayman. 1946. The type-localities of some African mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1946: 387 - 447.
  • Demeter, R., and R. Hutterer. 1986. Small mammals from Mt. Meru and its environs (Northern Tanzania). Cimbebasia, ser. A, 8: 199 - 207.