Crocidura cranbrooki, Jenkins, Lunde & Moncrieff, 2009
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Felipe |
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Crocidura cranbrooki |
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Cranbrook’s White-toothed Shrew
French: Crocidure de Cranbrook / German: Cranbrook-Weizahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Cranbrook
Taxonomy. Crocidura cranbrooki Jenkins, Lunde & Moncrieff, 2009 ,
Nam Tamai Valley , 1068 m, N Myanmar.
Crocidura cranbrooki was originally identified as a population of C. attenuata before it was identified as a distinct species. Monotypic.
Distribution. N Myanmar. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 65-86 mm, tail 65-88 mm, hindfoot 14-16 mm. No specific data are available for body weight.
Condylo-incisive lengths are 19-9-22-2 mm, and tooth rows are 8:6-9-8 mm. Cranbrook’s White-toothed Shrew is medium-sized and intermediate in size between the larger Southeast Asian White-toothed Shrew ( C. fuliginosa ) and the smaller Asian Gray White-toothed Shrew ( C. attenuata ). Dorsal pelage of Cranbrook’s White-toothed Shrew is brown, and ventral pelage is paler, dark gray-brown. Hands and feet are light buff. Tail is long, thin, and 81-108% of head-body length. Bristle hairs occur on proximal 30% oftail. Rostrum is long, and zygomatic plate is broad. Braincase is long and low. I' has large principal cusp. M? is large, with bicuspid mesostyle and broad talon.
Habitat. High river valleys and surrounding hills, with temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests at elevations of915-1220 m.
Food and Feeding. Cranbrook’s White-toothed Shrew is insectivorous.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. Cranbrook’s White-toothed Shrew is considered terrestrial.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Cranbrook’s White-toothed Shrew has been named only recently, and there is little information regarding its distribution and population size. Species of Crocidura in southeastern Asia are usually tolerant to some degree of anthropogenic activities.
Bibliography. Jenkins et al. (2009).
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