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 specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1981-494Type 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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