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Crocidura phaeura Osgood 1936

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Description

Crocidura phaeura Osgood, 1936. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 20:228.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Sidamo, west base of Mt. Guramba, NE of Aliata.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. Has not been collected since its discovery.

COMMENTS: Considered a full species by Dippenaar and Meester (1989). Related to harenna; see discussion in Hutterer and Yalden (1990).

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 93, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Osgood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Insectivora
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
Species
phaeura
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crocidura phaeura Osgood, 1936 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Dippenaar, N. J., and J. A. J. Meester. 1989. Revision of the luna-fumosa complex of Afrotropical Crocidura Wagler, 1832 (Mammalia: Soricidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 35: 1 - 47.
  • 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.