Sylvisorex ollula Thomas, 1913

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 105

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scientific name	Sylvisorex ollula Thomas, 1913
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Sylvisorex ollula Thomas, 1913 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 11:321.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Cameroons, Bitye, Ja River, 2,000 feet " (610 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: S Cameroon and adjacent Nigeria; Gabon; S Zaire.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. S. ollula is of conservation concern ( Nicoll and Rathbun, 1990:21).

COMMENTS: The largest species of the genus; discussed in some detail by Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979).

References

Dieterlen, F., and H. Heim de Balsac. 1979. Zur Okologie und Taxonomie der Spitzmause (Soricidae) des Kivu-Gebietes. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 27: 241 - 287.

Nicoll, M. E., and G. B. Rathbun. 1990. African Insectivora and elephant-shrews. An action plan for their conservation. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 53 pp.