Crocidura yaldeni

Lavrenchenko, Voyta, & Hutterer, 2016

Yalden'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

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lavrenchenko, L.A., Voyta, L.L. and Hutterer, R. 2016-11-20. Diversity of shrews in Ethiopia, with the description of two new species of Crocidura (Mammalia: Lipotyphla: Soricidae). Zootaxa 4196(1):38-60.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.1.2

Original name as described

Crocidura yaldeni

Other common names

Yalden's Shrew

Type material

ZMMU S-165342

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Beletta Forest, south-western Ethiopia, 07°34'N, 036°31'E, 1900 m a.s.l."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Ethiopia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Lavrenchenko, L. A., Voyta, L. L., & Hutterer, R. (2016). Diversity of shrews in Ethiopia, with the description of two new species of Crocidura (Mammalia: Lipotyphla: Soricidae). Zootaxa, 4196(1), 38-60.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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