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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura floweri
Author: | Dollman, 1915. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 515. | Common Name: | Flower's Shrew | Type Locality: | "Giza, Egypt." | Distribution: | Environs of Upper Nile valley and Wadi el Natrun, Egypt (Goodman, 1989). | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Mummified shrews from Ancient Egypt have been identified as C. floweri; see Heim de Balsac and Mein (1971). Possibly related to crossei and arabica; see Hutterer and Harrison (1988). |
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