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--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura grandiceps
Author: | Hutterer, 1983. | Citation: | Rev. Suisse Zool., 90: 699. | Common Name: | Large-headed Shrew | Type Locality: | Ghana, Sefwi-Wiawso, Krokosua Hills, N of Asempanaya (Asampaniye). | Distribution: | High forest regions of Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and possibly Cameroon (Hutterer and Schlitter, 1996). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Genetically allied to the turba-poensis complex (Querouil et al., In Press). Karyotype has 2n = 46, FN = 68 (Schlitter et al., 1999). |
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