Crocidura olivieri

(Lesson, 1827)

African Giant 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

Lesson, R.P. 1827. Manuel de mammalogie, ou histoire naturelle des mammifères. J. B. Baillière et fils, Paris, 441 pp.

Original name as described

Sorex Olivieri

Other common names

African Giant Shrew · Olivier's Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1909.7.1.13

Type kind

neotype

Type locality

Sakkara, Egypt. Restricted by G. B. Corbet in 1978 to "near Giza," based on neotype selection.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Afrotropic

Country distribution

Egypt · Senegal · Gambia · Mauritania? · Mali · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Sierra Leone · Liberia · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Chad · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Equatorial Guinea · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Sudan · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Somalia? · Kenya · Uganda · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Angola · Namibia · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Botswana · Zimbabwe

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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