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.

Original name as described

Crocidura allex

Other common names

East African Highland Shrew · Highlands Shrew

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:16820

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

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

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Kenya · Tanzania

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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