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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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