Suncus lixus (Thomas, 1898)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 102

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scientific name	Suncus lixus (Thomas, 1898)
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Suncus lixus (Thomas, 1898) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897:930 [1898].

TYPE LOCALITY: Malawi, Nyika Plateau (between 10 and 11° S and 33°40' to 34°10'E) GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Savanna zones of Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zaire, Zambia, Angola, Botswana, and Transvaal ( South Africa).

SYNONYMS: aequatoria, gratula.

COMMENTS: Includes aequatoria and gratula; see Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977). Gureev (1979:383) listed gratulus as a distinct species without comment.

Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).

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.