Crocidura munissii
Stanley, Hutterer, Giarla, & Esselstyn, 2015
Munissi'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
Authority citation
Stanley, W.T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T.C. and Esselstyn, J.A. 2015-05. Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the _Crocidura monax_ (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(1):185-215.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12230Original name as described
Crocidura munissii
Other common names
Munissi's Shrew
Type material
FMNH:Mamm:158290
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Tanzania, Morogoro Region, Morogoro District, Uluguru Mts, Uluguru North Forest Reserve, 5.1 km W, 2.3 km N Tegetero, 6.92°S, 37.6833°E, 1535 m."
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Tanzania
Taxonomy notes
recently described
Taxonomy notes citation
Stanley, W. T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T. C., & Esselstyn, J. A. (2015). Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the Crocidura monax (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174(1), 185-215.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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