Crocidura obscurior Heim de Balsac, 1958

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 92

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292206

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scientific name

Crocidura obscurior Heim de Balsac, 1958
status

 

Crocidura obscurior Heim de Balsac, 1958 . Mém. Inst. fr. Afr. noire, 53:328.

TYPE LOCALITY: Guinea, Mt. Nimba, montane prairie .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Ivory Coast; possibly Nigeria.

COMMENTS: Described with some doubt as a subspecies of bottegi , but its almost sympatric distribution, a longer skull ( Hutterer and Happold, 1983), and a different karyotype (Maddalena, pers. comm.) clearly distinguish it.

Hutterer, R., and D. C. D. Happold. 1983. The shrews of Nigeria (Mammalia: Soricidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien, 18: 1 - 79.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Insectivora

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura