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--> GENUS Sylvisorex
SPECIES Sylvisorex ollula
| Author: | Thomas, 1913. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 11: 321. | | Common Name: | Greater Forest Shrew | | Type Locality: | Cameroons, Bitye, Ja River, 2,000 feet (610 m). | | Distribution: | W Cameroon and adjacent Nigeria to S Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, and Dem. Rep. Congo. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | The largest species of the genus; discussed in some detail by Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979). Querouil et al. (2003) studied the phylogeography of the species in the Congo Basin; they found little genetic differentiation between populations from SW Cameroon to W Congo. Karyotype (2n = 38, FN = 64) described by Schlitter et al. (1999). For biolgical and distributional data, see Brosset (1988), Lasso et al. (1996), and Ray and Hutterer (1996). |
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