Crocidura greenwoodi

Heim de Balsac, 1966

Greenwood'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. 1966-01. Contribution à l'étude des Soricidae de Somalie. Monitore Zoologico Italiano Suppl. 1(1):196-220.

Original name as described

Crocidura greenwoodi

Other common names

Greenwood's Shrew

Type material

MF 2881

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Gelib, Somalia.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Somalia

Taxonomy notes

the epithet spelling 'greenwoodae' has recently been used for this species, but this is considered an unjustified emendation of the original spelling, 'greenwoodi', which is used here

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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