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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura wimmeri
Author: | Heim de Balsac and Aellen, 1958. | Citation: | Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 952. | Common Name: | Wimmer's Shrew | Type Locality: | Côte d’Ivoire, Adiopodoume. | Distribution: | S Côte d’Ivoire. | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Has been assigned to nimbae; but see Hutterer (1983a). Records outside Côte d’Ivoire are based on misidentifcations; specimen recorded from Cameroon and Gabon refer to batesi; see Brosset (1988). Karyotype has 2n = 50, FN = 84 (Meylan and Vogel, 1982). |
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