Suncus varilla (Thomas, 1895)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 103-104

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scientific name	Suncus varilla (Thomas, 1895)
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Suncus varilla (Thomas, 1895) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 16:54.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., East London .

DISTRIBUTION: Savannahs from the Cape ( South Africa) to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, E Zaire, Malawi; an isolated record from Nigeria.

SYNONYMS: meesteri, minor , natalensis, orangiae, tulbaghensis, warreni (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977:6).

COMMENTS: Closely associated with termite mounds ( Lynch, 1986). Gureev (1979:383) listed orangiae and warreni as distinct species without comment. Common in the Pleistocene of Kenya ( Butler and Greenwood, 1979).