Myosorex varius (Smuts, 1832)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 100

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scientific name

Myosorex varius (Smuts, 1832)
status

 

Myosorex varius (Smuts, 1832) . Enumer. Mamm. Capensium, p. 108.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, from NW Cape Province to E Transvaal; Lesotho and Orange Free State.

SYNONYMS: capensis , herpestes, pondoensis, transvaalensis (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977).

COMMENTS: Revised by Meester (1958).

Heim de Balsac, H., and J. Meester. 1977. Order Insectivora. Part 1. Pp. 1 - 29, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Meester, J. 1958. Variation in the shrew genus Myosorex in southern Africa. Journal of Mammalogy, 39: 325 - 339.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Insectivora

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Myosorex