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SPECIES Sylvisorex isabellae
Author: | Heim de Balsac, 1968. | Citation: | Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 19: 31. | Common Name: | Bioko Forest Shrew | Type Locality: | Equatorial Guinea, Bioko (Fernando Po), Pic Santa Isabel, Refugium, 2000 m. | Distribution: | Bioko; a similar form of unsolved taxonomic status occurs in the Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Included in morio by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977), but represents a distinctly smaller species. Karyotype (2n = 36, FN = 50) of the Bamenda population described by Schlitter et al. (1999). |
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