Crocidura harenna, Hutterer & Yalden, 1990
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Harenna White-toothed Shrew
French: Crocidure de I'Harenna / German: Harenna-Weil 3zahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Harenna
Other common names: Harenna Shrew
Taxonomy. Crocidura harenna Hutterer & Yalden, 1990 View in CoL ,
Harenna Forest , Bale Mountains , Ethiopia.
Relationships with other species in the genus uncertain; C. harenna View in CoL may be related to C. phaeura View in CoL . Monotypic.
Distribution. Harenna Forest in the Bale Mts of SC Ethiopia. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head—body 65-76 mm, tail 44-48 mm, ear 8-9 mm, hindfoot 12-5-14 mm; weight 7-9-5 g. The Harenna White-toothed Shrew is small to medium-sized with soft, dense pelage. The entire body is slate gray without a hint of brown and no demarcation between dorsal and ventral pelage. Tail is relatively long (c.66% of head-body length), slate gray, and covered in long bristle hairs throughout. Skull is high-domed; the braincase is almost hexagonal in dorsal view; the first upper incisor is moderately long and hooked; the first upper unicuspid is large, while the second and third are half the height of the first; M? is relatively large. There are three unicuspids. Chromosomal complement is 2n = 36, FN = 50.
Habitat. Restricted to a narrow altitudinal belt known as the Schefflera-Hagenia Belt, composed of mixed montane evergreen tropical forest. Elevational range is 2400-2630 m.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. One pregnant female and two sexually active males were recorded in August.
Activity patterns. Harenna White-toothed Shrews are terrestrial.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Critically Endangered on The IUCN Red List. The Harenna White-toothed Shrew is only known from six specimens from the Bale Mountains National Park, collected from 1971 to 1986. It is threatened by agricultural expansion, overgrazing, and logging, all amounting to habitat destruction.
Bibliography. Happold & Yalden (2013a), Hutterer & Yalden (1990), Lavrenchenko (2016b), Lavrenchenko et al. (1997).
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