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--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura luna
Author: | Dollman, 1910. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 175. | Common Name: | Moonshine Shrew | Type Locality: | Dem. Rep. Congo, "Bunkeya River, Shaba Province". | Distribution: | Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, E Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | A uniform group of bluish-gray shrews that exhibit a considerable geographic size variation; probably a composite group. Revised by Dippenaar and Meester (1989). Does not include macmillani, raineyi, and selina. In a biochemical comparison, specimens from Rwanda grouped outside all other African Crocidura studied (Maddalena, 1990). |
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electa Dollmann, 1910 garambae Heim de Balsac and Verschuren, 1968 inyangai Lundholm, 1955 johnstoni Dollmann, 1915 schistacea Osgood, 1910 umbrosa Dollman, 1915
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