Crocidura mariquensis

(A. Smith, 1844)

Swamp 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

Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm., pl. 44, fig. 1

Original name as described

Sorex mariquensis

Other common names

Swamp Musk Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1845.7.3.37, BMNH:Mamm:1845.7.3.40

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"A wooded ravine near the Tropic of Capricorn." Clarified by N. J. Dippenaar in 1979 as Marico River near its junction with Limpopo River, North West Province, South Africa, based on lectotype selection.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

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

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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