Crocidura salonga

Hutterer in Hutterer, Jocque, J. Mertens, Mpongo, & Mbende, 2024

Long-tailed Salonga 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

Hutterer, R., Jocque, M., Mertens, J., Mpongo, D.M. and Mbende, M. 2024-08-29. Three small species of shrews (Soricidae) from the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, representing two new taxa and a new record. Mammalia (in press).

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0036

Original name as described

Crocidura salonga

Type material

ZFMK:Mamm:2023.0469

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Democratic Republic of Congo, Salonga NP, lowland camp, 01°39'57.5"S, 20°31'58.1"E, 371 m."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Hutterer, R., Jocque, M., Mertens, J., Mpongo, D.M. and Mbende, M. 2024-08-29. Three small species of shrews (Soricidae) from the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, representing two new taxa and a new record. Mammalia (in press).

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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