Crocidura baileyi, Osgood, 1936
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Felipe |
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Crocidura baileyi |
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Bailey’s White-toothed Shrew
French: Crocidure de Bailey / German: Bailey-WeiRRzahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Bailey
Other common names: Bailey's Shrew, Simien Shrew
Taxonomy. Crocidura baileyi Osgood, 1936 View in CoL ,
Ras Dashan (= Mount Geech) , Simien Mountains , Ethiopia.
Belongs to the Ethiopian endemic C. glassi species complex, C. afeworkbekelei , C. yal- deni, C. glassi , C. macmillani , C. lucina , and C. thalia . C. baileyi seems to be closest to C. lucina , and was formerly considered to included it. Monotypic.
Distribution. N & C Ethiopia, in the highlands W of the Rift Valley in the Simien
Mts, Amedamit Mts, Enjiabara, Debra Sina, and Ankober. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head—body 72-93 mm, tail 41-46 mm, ear 8 mm, hindfoot 14— 16 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. Bailey’s White-toothed Shrew is a mediumssized to relatively large shrew, with distinctly bicolored pelage and tail, and long, woolly, soft pelage. Dorsal pelage is brownish to reddish brown, the individual hairs gray at the base and with a rufoustip; ventral pelage is creamy white with individual hairs being gray at base and with a white tip. Tail is relatively short (c.51% of head-body length), brown dorsally and whitish ventrally, hairy, and covered in longer bristle hairs. Braincase is inflated,as in other montane Ethiopian endemic Crocidura .
Habitat. Montane grassland and moorland in the Afro-alpine zone. Recorded at elevations of 2700-3550 m.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. Bailey's White-toothed Shrews are terrestrial.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Although Bailey’s White-toothed Shrew has a relatively small distribution, it is common where
it is found, comprising a sizeable percentage (9:8-10-1%) of the small mammals captured in the Simien Mountains in 1998. However,it may be threatened by small-holder farming of crops and livestock, as well as the limited habitat destruction that has occurred in parts ofits distribution.It is found in the Simien Mountains National Park.
Bibliography. Dippenaar (1980a), Kennerley & Lavrenchenko (2016a), Lavrenchenko (2013a), Lavrenchenko, Bannikova & Lebedev (2009), Lavrenchenko, Voyta & Hutterer (2016), Yihune & Bekele (2012).
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