Crocidura picea

Sanderson, 1940

Cameroon 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

Sanderson, I.T. 1940-01. The Mammals of the North Cameroons Forest Area. Being the Results of the Percy Sladen Expedition to the Mamfe Division of the British Cameroons. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 24(7):623-726.

Original name as described

Crocidura occidentalis picea

Other common names

Assumbo Shrew · Pitch Shrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1939.319

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Tinta, 701 m, Assumbo, Mamfe Division, Cameroon.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cameroon

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

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