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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER MACROSCELIDEA
--> FAMILY Macroscelididae
--> GENUS Elephantulus
SPECIES Elephantulus rufescens
| Author: | Peters, 1878. | | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1878: 198. | | Common Name: | Rufous Elephant Shrew | | Type Locality: | Kenya, Taita, Ndi. | | Distribution: | S and E Ethiopia; Kenya; E Uganda; S Sudan; N, C and W Tanzania; N and S Somalia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Corbet (1974:5) provisionally recognized six subspecies based on considerable but discontinuous variation. See Koontz and Roeper (1983, Mammalian Species, 204). |
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