Crocidura allex

Osgood, 1910

East African Highland White-toothed Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Crocidurinae
Genus : Crocidura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1910. Further new mammals from British East Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(3):15-21.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4462181

Original name as described

Crocidura allex

Other common names

East African Highland Shrew · Highlands Shrew

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:16820

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=8d22a85b-d2a1-4b19-9ae8-f8f30dd5e05b

Type locality

"Naivasha, British East Africa [= Kenya]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Kenya · Tanzania

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003844

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Crocidura allex

Osgood, 1910

Family

Soricidae

Root name

allex

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:16820

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=8d22a85b-d2a1-4b19-9ae8-f8f30dd5e05b

Authority page

20

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4462181

Authority publication

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series

Name usages

  1. Dollman (1915:516, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24256086) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19667)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:28) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:69) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  5. Happold & Happold (2013:57) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5620) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:514) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5620) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003844) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5620/22301002) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Crocidura allex zinki

Heim de Balsac, 1957

Family

Soricidae

Root name

zinki

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

SMNS 4512

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

151

Authority publication

Zoologischer Anzeiger

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Crocidura alpina

E. Heller, 1910

Family

Soricidae

Root name

alpina

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:163089

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3ad161b3e-b9f4-48e8-bd02-a10662d4dda5

Authority page

5

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8813195

Authority publication

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

Name usages

  1. Dollman (1915:516, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24256086) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19667)
  2. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

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