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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura nimbae
| Author: | Heim de Balsac, 1956. | | Citation: | Mammalia, 20: 131. | | Common Name: | Nimba Shrew | | Type Locality: | Guinea, Mt. Nimba, baraque de Zouguépo. | | Distribution: | Submontane and primary lowland forest in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire; in the Tai National Park (Côte d’Ivoire) it occurs only in undisturbed primary forest (Churchfield et al., 2004). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | A very distinct species; not conspecific with wimmeri as previously suggested (see Hutterer, 1983a). |
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