Petrodromus tetradactylus Peters 1846

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Macroscelidea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 82-85 : 84

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scientific name

Petrodromus tetradactylus Peters 1846
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Petrodromus tetradactylus Peters 1846 View in CoL

Petrodromus tetradactylus Peters 1846 View in CoL , Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 11: 258.

Type Locality: Mozambique, Tette.

Vernacular Names: Four-toed Elephant Shrew.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. tetradactylus Peters 1846

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. beirae Roberts 1913

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. rovumae Thomas 1897

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. schwanni Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. sultani Thomas 1897

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. swynnertoni Thomas 1918

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. tordayi Thomas 1910

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. warreni Thomas 1918

Subspecies Petrodromus tetradactylus subsp. zanzibaricus Corbet and Neal 1965

Distribution: Mozambique; Tanzania (including Mafia and Zanzibar); SE Kenya; S Uganda; Zambia; Malawi; SE Zimbabwe; Dem. Rep. Congo; E Republic of Congo; NE Angola; E South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN – Not Evaluated as P. t. sangi; otherwise IUCN – Not listed.

Discussion: Corbet (1974:2) and Meester et al. (1986:309) recognized nine subspecies. Corbet (1974:3) suggested that matschiei and robustus might be distinct subspecies. It is possible that schwanni and tordayi are separate species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Macroscelidea

Family

Macroscelididae

Genus

Petrodromus

Loc

Petrodromus tetradactylus Peters 1846

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Petrodromus tetradactylus

Peters 1846: 258
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