Sylvisorex camerunensis (Heim de Balsac, 1968)
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Sylvisorex camerunensis |
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Cameroonian Forest Shrew
Sylvisorex camerunensis View in CoL
French: Pachyure du Cameroun / German: Kamerun-Waldmoschusspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de bosque de Camerun
Other common names: Cameroon Forest Shrew
Taxonomy. Sylvisorex granti camerunensis Heim de Balsac, 1968 View in CoL ,
L.ake Manengouba , 1800 m, Cameroon.
Sylvisorex camerunensis was originally described as a subspecies of S. granti but is now recognized as a distinct species. Monotypic.
Distribution. SE Nigeria (Gotel Mts) and mountains of W Cameroon. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 55-60 mm, tail 55-61 mm, ear 8-10 mm, hindfoot 11-13 mm; weight 4-5 g. The Cameroonian Forest Shrew is very small, with soft, dense, and shiny pelage. Dorsum is dark brown (hairs dark gray with dark brown tips), and venter is indistinct, althoughit is slightly paler and sometimes hassilvery sheen (hairs gray with brown tips). Feet are sparsely covered with short dark hair. Ears are rounded, naked, and conspicuous, and eyes are small. Tail is ¢.100% of head-body length,thin, dark brown to black, and covered with many small dark bristle hairs. Skull is small, delicate, and slightly domed; I' are small and not hooked; and M” are large. There are four unicuspids, and incisors and unicuspids are weak.
Habitat. Montane tropical moist forests at elevations of ¢.2000 m in Cameroon and farm and grassland habitats at elevations of ¢.2300 m in Nigeria.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List. The Cameroonian Forest Shrew has a small extent of occurrence (c.16,936 km®), severely fragmented distribution, and continuing decline in extent and quality ofits forest habitat. It is threatened by habitat loss from logging, conversion of land to agricultural uses, overgrazing by domestic livestock, and general fragmentation of suitable forest patches. It has been recorded in Mount Oku Faunal Reserve but is only known from a few records.
Bibliography. Heim de Balsac (1968b), Hutterer (2013ag), Hutterer, Dieterlen & Nikolaus et al. (1992).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Sylvisorex camerunensis
| Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson 2018 |
Sylvisorex granti camerunensis
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