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--> GENUS Myosorex
SPECIES Myosorex schalleri
Author: | Heim de Balsac, 1966. | Citation: | C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 263: 889. | Common Name: | Schaller's Mouse Shrew | Type Locality: | E Dem. Rep. Congo, Itombwe Mtns, Nzombe (Mwenga). | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Provisionally named by Heim de Balsac (1966b); full description by Heim de Balsac (1967). The type locality was later erroneously shifted to the "Albert N. P." (Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977); Nzombe is located in the Itombwe Mtns (Hutterer, 1986c). |
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