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--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura foxi
| Author: | Dollman, 1915. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 514. | | Common Name: | Fox's Shrew | | Type Locality: | Nigeria, Panyam. | | Distribution: | Jos Plateau, Nigeria, and Sudan savanna zone of West Africa from Senegal to S Sudan. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable (not justified). | | Comments: | A member of the poensis group; may be conspecific with theresae, which it antedates; see Hutterer and Happold (1983). A series from Owerri, S Nigeria, referred to foxi by these authors, was later, upon re-examination, identified as a dark form of lamottei. The holotype of tephra Setzer, 1956 has been recently examined and is regarded as representing foxi in S Sudan; a previous allocation to viaria (Hutterer, 1984) was based upon examination of a paratype skin; however, the holotype represents a different species. |
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