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--> GENUS Myosorex
SPECIES Myosorex varius
Author: | Smuts, 1832. | Citation: | Enumer. Mamm. Capensium: 108. | Common Name: | Forest Shrew | Type Locality: | South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth). | Distribution: | South Africa, from West and Eastern Cape across Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Free State to Mpumalanga and Gauteng Provinces; also Lesotho and Swaziland (Baxter, in litt., 2004). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Revised by Meester (1958). Karyotype (2n = 42) differs from all other southern African Myosorex (Wolhuter, in Smithers, 1983). For synonyms see Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
herpestes (Duvernoy, 1838) pondoensis Roberts, 1946 transvaalensis Roberts, 1924
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