Crocidura obscurior

Heim de Balsac, 1958

West African Pygmy 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

Mém. Inst. fr. Afr. noire, vol. 53, 328

Original name as described

Crocidura (bottegi) obscurior

Other common names

Obscure White-toothed Shrew · West African Pygmy Shrew

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1981-494

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

montane prairie, Mount Nimba, Guinea.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Guinea · Liberia · Sierra Leone · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Nigeria

Taxonomy notes

formerly included C. eburnea

Taxonomy notes citation

Jacquet, F., Nicolas, V., Colyn, M., Kadjo, B., Hutterer, R., Decher, J., ... & Denys, C. (2014). Forest refugia and riverine barriers promote diversification in the W est A frican pygmy shrew (C rocidura obscurior complex, S oricomorpha). Zoologica scripta, 43(2), 131-148.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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