Crocidura cyanea Duvernoy 1838

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 228

Crocidura cyanea Duvernoy 1838

Crocidura cyanea Duvernoy 1838 , Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Strasbourg, 2: 2.

Type Locality: "La riviere des Elephants, au sud de l'Afrique" = Citrusdal, South Africa fide Shortridge (1942:27) .

Vernacular Names: Reddish-gray Musk Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura argentatus Sundevall in Grill 1860 ; Crocidura capensis (Smuts 1832) ; Crocidura capensoides (A. Smith 1833) ; Crocidura concolor (A. Smith 1836) ; Crocidura electa Dollman 1910 ; Crocidura infumata (Wagner 1841) ; Crocidura martensii Dobson 1890 ; Crocidura pondoensis Roberts 1913 ; Crocidura vryburgensis Roberts 1946 .

Distribution: South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe; records further north uncertain.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: The species concept applied by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977) included a number of names which evidently do not belong to cyanea but to species such as parvipes and smithii ; see Hutterer (1986 a) and Hutterer and Joger (1982). The limits of distribution of cyanea have not yet been established; Meester et al. (1986) distinguished cyanea and infumata as subspecies in South Africa. The taxon erica which has been included in cyanea may be related to hirta .