Crocidura olivieri ( Lesson, 1827 )

Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, Zoosystema 43 (14), pp. 253-281 : 260

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scientific name	Crocidura olivieri ( Lesson, 1827 )
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Crocidura olivieri ( Lesson, 1827)

Sorex olivieri Lesson, 1827: 121 .

COMMON NAME. — African Giant White-toothed Shrew, Olivier’s Shrew.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi • 1 ♀; Sherman trap in forest; ZFMK 2003.1089 About ZFMK . Liati Wote (Tagbo Falls) • 1?; Sherman trap between buttress roots in forest; ZFMK 2003.1090 About ZFMK .

REMARK

This species was previously known from several localities in the Volta Region ( Grubb et al. 1998). In their Kyabobo expedition report Hurst et al. (1995) mention several individuals of this large shrew (as C. flavescens ) from KRNP, but we did not encounter it there. Our specimen from Liati Wote (ZFMK 2003.1090) was included in a recent phylogeographic study of C. olivieri ( Jacquet et al. 2015) and grouped with their Clade IIB with Dahomey Gap specimens from Togo and Benin.

CONSERVATION STATUS. — Crocidura olivieri is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.

References

GRUBB P., JONES T. S., DAVIES A. G., EDBERG E., STARIN E. D. & HILL J. E. 1998. - Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall, vi + 265 p.

HURST J., BOWES LYON D. & KEEFE E. O' 1995. - Kyabobo' 94: a joint Ghanaian and Oxford University Expedition. Final Report. KCP Publications, Ghana Wildlife Department, Institute for Renewable Natural Resources, 69 p.

JACQUET F., DENYS C., VERHEYEN E., BRYJA J., HUTTERER R., KERBIS PETERHANS J. C., STANLEY W. T., GOODMAN S. M., COULOUX A., COLYN M. C. & NICOLAS V. 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: 71, https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 12862 - 015 - 0344 - y

LESSON R. P. 1827. - Manuel de mammalogie, ou histoire naturelle des mammiferos. J. B Bailliere, Pairs, 442 p. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 137811

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Soricomorpha
Family	Soricidae
Genus	Crocidura

Crocidura olivieri ( Lesson, 1827 )

Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William 2021

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