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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura yankariensis
| Author: | Hutterer and Jenkins, 1980. | | Citation: | Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 39: 305. | | Common Name: | Yankari Shrew | | Type Locality: | Nigeria, Bauchi State, 16 km E of Yankari Game Reserve boundary, Futuk [9°50'N, 10°55'E]. | | Distribution: | Sudan savanna zone in Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Previously confused with somalica; see Hutterer and Jenkins (1983). Karyotype (2n = 68, FN = 122) described by Schlitter et al. (1999). |
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