Crocidura douceti

Heim de Balsac, 1958

Doucet's 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

Heim de Balsac, H. 1958. Mammifères insectivores. Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique Noire 53:301-337.

Original name as described

Crocidura douceti

Other common names

Doucet's Shrew · Doucet's Musk Shrew

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-1099

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-1099

Type locality

Adiopodoume, Côte d'Ivoire (= Ivory Coast).

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Guinea · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana? · Nigeria?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003878

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 douceti

Heim de Balsac, 1958

Family

Soricidae

Root name

douceti

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-1099

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-1099

Authority page

329

Authority publication

Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique Noire

Name usages

  1. Heim de Balsac (1958:329) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68610)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:28) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:72, 73) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1991:32) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  5. Hutterer (1993:84) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  6. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  7. Happold & Happold (2013:72) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #400000100) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  9. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:531) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #400000100) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  11. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003878) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  12. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40629/22295053) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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