Crocidura lamottei

Heim de Balsac, 1968

Lamotte'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. 1968. Recherches sur la faune des Soricidae de l'ouest africain (du Ghana au Senegal). Mammalia 32(3):379-418.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1968.32.3.379

Original name as described

Crocidura lamottei

Other common names

Lamotte's Shrew

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-1029

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-1029

Type locality

Lamto, Côte d'Ivoire (= Ivory Coast).

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau? · Mali? · Guinea · Sierra Leone · Liberia · Burkina Faso · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Togo · Benin? · Nigeria · Cameroon

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003923

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 lamottei

Heim de Balsac, 1968

Family

Soricidae

Root name

lamottei

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-1029

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-1029

Authority page

385

Authority publication

Mammalia

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:29) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:76) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Corbet & Hill (1991:33) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  4. Hutterer (1993:87) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  5. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  6. Happold & Happold (2013:93) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #41326) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  8. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:531) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #41326) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003923) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  11. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41326/22308096) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Crocidura lamottei elegans

Hutterer, 1986

Family

Soricidae

Root name

elegans

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZFMK:Mamm:1976.009

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

29

Authority publication

Cimbebasia

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Crocidura lamottei lamottei

Hutterer, 2005

Family

Soricidae

Root name

lamottei

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

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