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--> GENUS Myosorex
SPECIES Myosorex cafer
Author: | Sundevall, 1846. | Citation: | Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3: 119. | Common Name: | Dark-footed Mouse Shrew | Type Locality: | South Africa, "E Caffraria interiore et Port-Natal". | Distribution: | South Africa, eastern escarpment from Eastern Cape Prov. north to Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces; extreme W Mozambique and E Zimbabwe, in higher elevations above 1,000 m. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Meester (1958) described the geographic variation of the species. Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977) included affinis, sclateri, swinnyi, talpinus, and tenuis in cafer, while Wolhuter (in Smithers, 1983:3) and Dippenaar et al. (1983) regarded sclateri and tenuis as distinct, partly based on new karyotype information (M. cafer: 2n = 38). Although no additonal data have yet been published, this view is provisionally accepted here as it better reflects existing variation within the southern African representatives of the genus. |
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