Crocidura lucina

Dippenaar, 1980

Lucina'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

Dippenaar, N.J. 1980. New species of Crocidura from Ethiopia and northern Tanzania (Mammalia: Soricidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 32(6):125-154.

Authority publication link

https://journals.co.za/docserver/fulltext/nfi_annalstm/32/6/181.pdf?expires=1610645542&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=975765FCC9BDB7EF06270F4A8852A577

Original name as described

Crocidura lucina

Other common names

Lucina's Shrew · Moorland Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1972.1101

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c7b18f2d-1c92-426e-bb13-c8e23e644acd

Type locality

"‘Web River', near Dinshu, Ethiopia on type and paratype labels should read Ueb River (3 000 m a.s.l.), with co-ordinates given by collectors: 07°06'N; 39°46'E."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Ethiopia

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003933

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 lucina

Dippenaar, 1980

Family

Soricidae

Root name

lucina

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1972.1101

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c7b18f2d-1c92-426e-bb13-c8e23e644acd

Authority page

134

Authority publication

Annals of the Transvaal Museum

Name usages

  1. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  2. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  3. Happold & Happold (2013:97) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5572) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5572) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003933) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5572/115075017) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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