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). |
|
|
|
|