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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura cyanea
| Author: | Duvernoy, 1838. | | Citation: | Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Strasbourg, 2: 2. | | Common Name: | Reddish-gray Musk Shrew | | Type Locality: | "La riviere des Elephants, au sud de l'Afrique" = Citrusdal, South Africa fide Shortridge (1942:27). | | Distribution: | South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe; records further north uncertain. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | The species concept applied by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977) included a number of names which evidently do not belong to cyanea but to species such as parvipes and smithii; see Hutterer (1986a) and Hutterer and Joger (1982). The limits of distribution of cyanea have not yet been established; Meester et al. (1986) distinguished cyanea and infumata as subspecies in South Africa. The taxon erica which has been included in cyanea may be related to hirta. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
argentatus Sundevall in Grill, 1860
capensis (Smuts, 1832)
capensoides (A. Smith, 1833)
concolor (A. Smith, 1836)
electa Dollman, 1910
infumata (Wagner, 1841)
martensii Dobson, 1890
pondoensis Roberts, 1913
vryburgensis Roberts, 1946
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