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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura lusitania
| Author: | Dollman, 1915. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 516. | | Common Name: | Mauritanian Shrew | | Type Locality: | Mauritania, "Trarza country". | | Distribution: | Sahelian zone from S Morocco to Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia; a Saharan record from Mali. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Included in subgenus Afrosorex by Hutterer (1986a), but a recent genetic study (Querouil et al., In Press) does not support this action. For a summary of distributional records, see Hutterer (1986a) and Sidiyene (1989). Karyotype has 2n = 38, FN = 64 (Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). |
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