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--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura viaria
Author: | I. Geoffroy, 1834. | Citation: | In Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes-Orient.: 127. | Common Name: | Savanna Path Shrew | Type Locality: | "Senegal", restricted to region between Dakar and St. Luis by Hutterer (1984). | Distribution: | Sahelien and Sudan savanna from S Morocco to Senegal and east to Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya; perhaps further south. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Revised by Hutterer (1984); Possibly includes suahelae, which may alternatively belong to zaphiri. A member of the flavescens species group (Maddalena, 1990), as shown by the karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 66; Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). Isolated Maroccan population reviewed by Vogel et al. (2000). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
bolivari Morales Agacino, 1934 hindei Thomas, 1904 suahelae Heller, 1912 tamrinensis Vesmanis and Vesmanis, 1980
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