Crocidura eburnea

Heim de Balsac, 1958

Ivory Coast 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

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 (bottegi) eburnea

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-482, MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-483

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Mount Tonkoui, Ivory Coast.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Guinea · Liberia · Cote d'Ivoire

Taxonomy notes

split from C. obscurior

Taxonomy notes citation

Jacquet, F., Nicolas, V., Colyn, M., Kadjo, B., Hutterer, R., Decher, J., ... & Denys, C. (2014). Forest refugia and riverine barriers promote diversification in the W est A frican pygmy shrew (C rocidura obscurior complex, S oricomorpha). Zoologica scripta, 43(2), 131-148.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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