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--> ORDER MACROSCELIDEA
--> FAMILY Macroscelididae
--> GENUS Elephantulus
SPECIES Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
| Author: | A. Smith, 1834. | | Actual Date: | 1836 | | Citation: | Rept. Exped. Exploring Central Africa, 1834: 42. | | Common Name: | Short-snouted Elephant Shrew | | Type Locality: | "The country between Lake Latakoo and the Tropic" (= South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Kuruman, to S Botswana). | | Distribution: | N South Africa; NE Namibia; E and N Botswana; Angola; Zimbabwe; Malawi; Zambia; S Dem. Rep. Congo; Mozambique; Tanzania; Kenya and Uganda. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Corbet (1974:5) and Meester et al. (1986:311) regarded variation as clinal and did not recognize any subspecies. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
albiventer (Osgood, 1910)
brachyura (Bocage, 1882)
brevirostris (Schinz, 1844)
delamerei (Thomas, 1901)
langi (Roberts, 1929)
luluae (Matschie, 1926)
mababiensis (Roberts, 1932)
selindensis (Roberts, 1937)
shortridgei (Roberts, 1929)
tzaneenensis (Roberts, 1929)
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