Crocidura nigricans, Bocage, 1889
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Blackish White-toothed Shrew
Crocidura nigricans View in CoL
French: Crocidure noire / German: Schwarze Angola-WeiRzahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana negruzca
Other common names: Blackish Shrew, Black White-toothed Shrew
Taxonomy. Crocidura nigricans Bocage, 1889 View in CoL ,
Quindumbo, Benguela District , Angola.
Phylogenetic placement of C. nigricans is unknown, but it might be related to C. ercaor C. mariquensis . Monotypic.
Distribution. SW Angola. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 62-89 mm, tail 4663-5 mm, ear 4-9 mm, hindfoot 11-16 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. The Blackish Whitetoothed Shrew is medium-sized to relatively large. Dorsal pelage is blackish blue or slate-gray, and ventral pelage is paler. Tail is ¢.75% of head-body length, hairy, and dark. Talonid of M? lacks fovea. There are three unicuspids.
Habitat. Mountainous regions in Angola, but there is no information related to habitat preferences of the Blackish White-toothed Shrew.
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 Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Virtually nothing is known of the Blackish White-toothed Shrew, and its specific status has been
questioned throughoutits taxonomic history; additional research is needed. Despite few records, it does not seem to have any major threats and might have a much wider distribution than currently known.
Bibliography. Crawford-Cabral (1987), Hill & Carter (1941), Hutterer (2016).
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