Crocidura macarthuri St. Leger, 1934

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 89

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DOI

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scientific name

Crocidura macarthuri St. Leger, 1934
status

 

Crocidura macarthuri St. Leger, 1934 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 13:559.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Tana River, Meritano (32 km from mouth of Tana River) .

DISTRIBUTION: Savanna plains of Kenya and Somalia.

COMMENTS: The species has been recorded from Somalia as smithii (e.g., Heim de Balsac, 1966a); see Hutterer (1986a).

Heim de Balsac, H. 1966 a. Contribution a l'etude des Soricidae de Somalie. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 74 Supplemento: 196 - 221.

Hutterer, R. 1986 a. African shrews allied to Crocidura fischeri: Taxonomy, distribution and relationships. Cimbebasia, ser. A, 8 (4): 199 - 207.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Insectivora

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura