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SPECIES Crocidura virgata

Author:Sanderson, 1940.
Citation:Trans. zool. Soc. Lond., 24: 682.
Common Name:Mamfe Shrew
Type Locality:Cameroon, Mamfe Division, Assumbo, Tinta [06°15'N, 09°31'E].
Distribution:Nigeria (Meylan and Vogel, 1982) and highlands of W Cameroon.
Comments:Previously included in hildegardeae (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977), but has a different karyotype (2n = 52, FN = 86; Schlitter et al., 1999).
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    vulcani Heim de Balsac, 1956

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