Crocidura thalia Dippenaar, 1980

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 96

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292280

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scientific name

Crocidura thalia Dippenaar, 1980
status

 

Crocidura thalia Dippenaar, 1980 . Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32: 138 -147.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, NW Bale Province, Gedeb Mtns, SE Dodola, 2,600 m (06°55'N, 39°10'E) GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Forest and moorland of the Ethiopian highlands on both sides of the Rift Valley.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: Previous to its description, thalia was known as C. luna macmillani (e.g., Hutterer, 1981c) or C. fumosa ; see Yalden (1988), who studied the altitudinal distribution.

Hutterer, R. 1981 c. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung der Soricidae Athiopiens (Mammalia; Insectivora). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 31: 217 - 247.

Yalden, D. W. 1988. Small mammals of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. African Journal of Ecology, 26: 281 - 294.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Insectivora

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura