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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura muricauda
Author: | Miller, 1900. | Citation: | Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2: 645. | Common Name: | West African Long-tailed Shrew | Type Locality: | Liberia, Mount Coffee. | Distribution: | West African high forest from Guinea to Ghana. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Often included in dolichura as a subspecies but constantly differs in its hairy tail while dolichura never shows any pilosity of the tail. Genetically not even closely related to dolichura (Querouil et al., In Press). |
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