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--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura fischeri
Author: | Pagenstecher, 1885. | Citation: | Jb. Hamburger Wiss. Anst., 2: 34. | Common Name: | Fischer's Shrew | Type Locality: | "Nguruman"; northwest of Lake Natron, close to Mt. Sambo, Kenya (near border to Tanzania); see discussion by Moreau et al. (1946) and Aggundey and Schlitter (1986). | Distribution: | Nguruman (Kenya), and Himo (Tanzania). | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Type species of subgenus Afrosorex. Revised by Hutterer (1986a). |
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