SORICIDAE G. Fischer, 1814
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Family SORICIDAE G. Fischer, 1814 View in CoL
REMARK
Species belonging to this family are often traded for traditional medicine in fetish markets across Togo ( Fig. 30 View FIG ).
Crocidura crossei Thomas, 1895 ▶
VOUCHERS. — Three specimens, captured at Ezimé and Agou are currently stored in the NMNH.
Crocidura foxi Dollman, 1915 ▶
HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Present in northern Togo ( Duplantier & Granjon 2013a; IUCN; 2014). Recorded also from Benin, at the border with Togo (Nicolas et al. 2010) and from Apesokubi just across the border in the Volta Region of Ghana (Decher & Abedi-Lartey 2002).
Crocidura fuscomurina (Heuglin, 1865) ▶
HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Matschie (1893b) recorded this species (as Crocidura bovei Dobson, 1887 ) at Bismarckburg (Adéle), in the ecological zone IV. Heim de Balsac (1958) also mentions the Bismarckburg specimen as Crocidura bicolor Bocage, 1889 with a lateral view of the skull. This species was also reported for the country by IUCN (2014) and Dippenar & Basker (2013), and indirectly by Hutterer (2005). It was found also in West Benin at Gotcha and Laugba (Nicolas et al. 2010). Hurst et al. (1995) reported a specimen as C. foxi Dollman, 1915 from Kyabobo National Park on the Ghana side, a park that is continuous with Fazao Malfakassa National Park, but it was later re-identified by R. Hutterer (ZFMK) as C. fuscomurina ( Grubb et al. 1998) .
Crocidura grandiceps Hutterer, 1983 ▶
VOUCHERS. — Two specimens, collected in 1968 by the African Mammal Project at Agou, are presently stored at the NMNH.
Crocidura lamottei Heim de Balsac, 1968 ▶
HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Reported for the whole of the country by IUCN (2014), Jenkins & Churchfield (2013), and indirectly by Hutterer (2005). An individual record was reported by Hutterer (1986) from Sokodé.
Crocidura olivieri (Lesson, 1827) ▶
HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — This species was recorded from Apesokubi and Liati Wote (Decher & Abedi-Lartey 2002) and from Kyabobo National Park ( Hurst et al. 1995) all in the Volta Region of Ghana.
VOUCHERS. — Six specimens, captured in 1968 by the African Mammal Project at Dapaong and Pagala, are listed in the NMNH database. Six specimens from the “Campus Universitaire” and from a locality called “Forever” are listed in the MNHN database.
REMARK
The subspecies giffardi de Winton, 1898 occurs in Togo. This species is now recognized as a species complex (see Jacquet et al. 2013; Jacquet 2015).
Crocidura poensis (Fraser, 1843) ▶
VOUCHERS AND REMARK. — Ten specimens, captured in 1968 by the African Mammal Project at Pewa, Padori, Pagala, and Ezime are listed in the NMNH database. However, Churchfield & Hutterer (2013) still show it as missing from the Dahomey Gap.
Crocidura theresae Heim de Balsac, 1968 ▶
VOUCHERS AND REMARK. — A specimen from Kandé (Kanté) is listed in the MNHN database. However, Duplantier & Granjon (2013b) only show this species reaching into southwestern Ghana from the Upper Guinea Region.
CHURCHFIELD S. & HUTTERER R. 2013. - Crocidura poensis Fraser's Shrew (Fraser's Musk Shrew), 125 - 126 in HAPPOLD M. & HAPPOLD D. C. D. (eds), The Mammals of Africa. Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shews and Bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
DUPLANTIER J. - M. & GRANJON L. 2013 a. - Crocidura foxi Bicoloured Shrew (Fox'x Shrew), in HAPPOLD M. & HAPPOLD D. C. D. (eds), The Mammals of Africa. Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shews and Bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 78 - 79.
DUPLANTIER J. - M. & GRANJON L. 2013 b. Crocidura theresae Therese's Shrew in HAPPOLD M. & HAPPOLD D. C. D. (eds), The Mammals of Africa. Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shews and Bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 139.
GRUBB P., JONES T. S., DAVIES A. G., EDBERG E., SARIN E. D. & HILL J. E. 1998 - Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Cornwall, 265 p.
HEIM DE BALSAC H. 1958. - La reserve naturelle integrale du Mont Nimba: 14. Mammiferes insectivores. Memoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire 53: 301 - 337.
HURST J., BOWES LYON D. & O'KEEFE E. 1995. - Kyabobo ' 94: a joint Ghanaian and Oxford University Expedition. Final Report. KCP Publications, Ghana Wildlife Department, Institute for Renewable Natural Resources, 69 p.
HUTTERER R. 1986. - African shrews allied to Crocidura fischeri: taxonomy, distribution and relationships. Cimbebasia 8: 23 - 35.
HUTTERER R. 2005. - Order Insectivora, p. 212 - 311 in WILSON D. E. & REEDER D. M. (eds), Mammal species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference (3 rd ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
JACQUET F., HUTTERER R., NICOLAS V., DECHER J., COLYN M., COU- LOUX A. & DENYS C. 2013. - New status for two African giant forest shrews, Crocidura goliath goliath and C. goliath nimbasilvanus (Mammalia: Soricomorpha), based on molecular and geometic morphometric analyses. African Zoology 48: 13 - 29.
JACQUET F. 2015. - Phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Crocidura olivieri complex (Mammalia, Soricomorpha): from a forest origin to broad ecological expansion across Africa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / s 12862 - 015 - 0344 - y
JENKINS P. D. & CHURCHFIELD S. 2013. - Crocidura lamottei Lamotte's Shrew, in HAPPOLD M. & HAPPOLD D. C. D. (eds), The Mammals of Africa. Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shews and Bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 93.
MATSCHIE P. 1893 b. - Saugethiere des Togogebietes, in Beitrage zur Fauna des Togolandes. Mittheilungen aus den deutschen Schutzegebieten 6: 162 - 180.
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