Crocidura hirta

W. C. H. Peters, 1852

Lesser Red 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

Peters, W.C.H. 1852. Hr. Peters las eine Abhandlung über die Gebissformel der Spitzmäuse, welche hier im Auszuge mitgetheilt wird. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1852:169-176.

Original name as described

Crocidura hirta

Other common names

Lesser Red Musk Shrew

Type material

ZMB 668, ZMB 669

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Tete, Zambezia Province, Mozambique (17°S).

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Tanzania · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Namibia · Botswana · Zimbabwe · South Africa · Eswatini

Taxonomy notes

previously included C. bloyeti

Taxonomy notes citation

Dianat, M., Voet, I., Ortiz, D., de Bellocq, J. G., Cuypers, L. N., Kryštufek, B., ... & Konečný, A. (2023). Cryptic diversity of Crocidura shrews in the savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 180, 107708.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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