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--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura flavescens
| Author: | I. Geoffroy, 1827. | | Citation: | Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 11: 324. | | Common Name: | Greater Red Musk Shrew | | Type Locality: | "La Cafrerie et le pays des Hottentots" = King William's Town, South Africa. | | Distribution: | South Africa. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | For correct original citation see Ellerman et al. (1953). Does not include olivieri; see Maddalena et al. (1987) and comments under that species. Reviewed by Meester (1963). Karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 74) described by Maddalena et al. (1987). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
capensis (A. Smith, 1833)
cinnamomeus (Lichtenstein, 1829)
knysnae Roberts, 1946
rutilus (Sundevall, 1846)
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