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--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura fuscomurina
Author: | Heuglin, 1865. | Citation: | Leopoldina, 5, in Nouv. Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol., 32: 36. | Common Name: | Bicolored Musk Shrew | Type Locality: | Sudan, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Meshra-el-Req. | Distribution: | Sudan and Guinea savanna from Senegal to Ethiopia, and south to South Africa. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Revised by Hutterer (1983b). Karyotype from Burundi has 2n = 56, FN = 86 (Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). C. planiceps may belong here but relationships are yet unsolved. |
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bicolor Bocage, 1889 bovei Dobson, 1887 cuninghamei Thomas, 1904 fuscomurinus (Heuglin, 1865) glebula Dollmann, 1916 hendersoni Dollman, 1915 marita Thomas and Hinton, 1923 sansibarica Neumann, 1900 tephragaster Setzer, 1956 tephronotus Heim de Balsac, 1968 woosnami Dollman, 1915
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