Crocidura parvipes, Osgood, 1910
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Crocidura parvipes |
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Smallfooted White-toothed Shrew
Crocidura parvipes View in CoL
French: Crocidure a pattes courtes / German: Kleinful 3-WeiRzahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de pies pequenos
Other common names: Small-footed Shrew
Taxonomy. Crocidura parvipes Osgood, 1910 View in CoL ,
Voi , British East Africa (= Kenya).
Crocidura parvipes is considerably variable and might represent 4-5 distinct species. Its phylogenetic position is uncertain, although one genetic study placed it close to C. olwieri, C. hirta , and C. flavescens . Monotypic.
Distribution. Distribution is still rather unknown as there are few widely scattered specimens from Cameroon, Central African Republic, and S South Sudan S to Angola, Zambia, and N Tanzania; largest continual portion of the distribution is in East Africa from S South Sudan to N Tanzania. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 68-85 mm, tail 32-52 mm, ear 5-10 mm, hindfoot 10-13 mm; weight 8-12 g. The Small-footed White-toothed Shrew is mediumsized, with soft, dense, and silky sheened pelage. Dorsal pelage is medium brown, washed with pale brownish gray (hairs are medium gray on basal two-thirds, with pale brownish gray subterminal band and brown tips), and ventral pelage is creamy white and sometimes silvery white (hairs are gray with creamy gray tips); sharp delineation between venter and dorsum is evident. Flank gland is elongated and covered with short white hairs on each side of body. Ears are large, and feet are flesh-colored and covered with short pale brown or creamy hairs. Hindfeet are relatively short. Tail is ¢.45-60% of head-body length, thicker at base and tapering toward tip, hairy, and bicolored, being medium brown above and paler below. [' are moderately long and slightly hooked; M? is medium-sized to narrow. There are three unicuspids. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 52 and FN = 66 (Cameroon) and 2n = 50 (Ethiopia).
Habitat. Primarily dry savanna. There are records of Small-footed White-toothed Shrews from gallery forests.
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. There are few scattered records of Smallfooted White-toothed Shrew throughout central and eastern Africa over a very wide distribution. Although it is rarely collected, it does not seem to have any major threats.
Bibliography. Aggundey & Schlitter (1986), Bannikova et al. (2005), Burgess et al. (2000), Heim de Balsac & Meester (1977), Hutterer (2013s), Hutterer, Baxter & Howell (2016), Lavrenchenko et al. (2009), Setzer (1956), Thorn et al. (2009), Yalden et al. (1996).
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