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--> GENUS Paracrocidura
SPECIES Paracrocidura graueri
Author: | Hutterer, 1986. | Citation: | Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 37: 81. | Common Name: | Grauer's Large-headed Shrew | Type Locality: | "Urwald hinter den Randbergen des Nord-Westufers des Tanganjika" = Sibatwa, 2,000 m, Itombwe Mtns, Dem. Rep. Congo. | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Known only from the holotype which was collected in 1908. Like Myosorex schalleri, the species forms part of the endemic fauna of the Itombwe Mtns. |
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