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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura thalia
| Author: | Dippenaar, 1980. | | Citation: | Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32: 138-147. | | Common Name: | Thalia's Shrew | | Type Locality: | Ethiopia, NW Bale Province, Gedeb Mtns, SE Dodola, 2,600 m (06°55'N, 39°10'E). | | Distribution: | Forest and moorland of the Ethiopian highlands on both sides of the Rift Valley (Yalden et al., 1997). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Previous to its description, thalia was known as C. luna macmillani (e.g., Hutterer, 1981c) or C. fumosa; see Yalden (1988), who studied the altitudinal distribution. Chromosomally (2n = 36) and genetically close to C. glassi (Bannikova et al., 2001b; Lavrenchenko et al., 1997). |
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