Crocidura somalica, Thomas, 1895

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Soricidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 332-551 : 533-534

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6870843

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6870452

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scientific name

Crocidura somalica
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395. View Plate 24: Soricidae

Somali White-toothed Shrew

Crocidura somalica View in CoL

French: Crocidure de Somalie / German: Somali-Weif 3zahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Somalia

Other common names: Somali Shrew

Taxonomy. Crocidura (Crocidura) somalica Thomas, 1895 View in CoL ,

Webi Shebeli [= Shebelle River] , Somaliland ” (= about 05° 30’N, 44° 00’E, near Geledi (Galadi), Ethiopia). GoogleMaps

Recent phylogenetic studies have found that a sample from Ethiopia was sister to the Central African/Congo Basin populations of C. olivieri . Monotypic.

Distribution. Recorded from EC Mali, S Sudan, and N, C & SE Ethiopia. View Figure

Descriptive notes. Head-body 63-77 mm,

tail 40-46 mm, ear 5—7 mm, hindfoot 11-13 mm; weight 8 g. The Somali White-toothed Shrew is small to medium-sized. Dorsal pelage is slate-gray, with variable amounts of brown throughout. Ventral pelage is gray, and chin is white. Ears are whitish. Tails is c.66% of head-body length, slender but slightly thicker at base, hairy and covered with longerbristle hairs, and bicolored, being pale brown dorsally and white ventrally. Skull is small and slender, rostrum is relatively long and slender, braincase is not quite oval-shaped in dorsal view, and coronoid process of mandible is medium-sized. There are three unicuspids.

Habitat. Mainly arid habitats, such as dry savannas and semi-deserts. Somali Whitetoothed Shrews are found around granite rocks and sandy valleys in Adrar de Iforas, Mali.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. No information.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The [UCN Red List. The Somali White-toothed Shrew has a very wide distribution, butit is only known from a few scattered records and is considered rare throughout its known distribution.

Bibliography. Cassola (2016bb), Heim de Balsac & Meester (1977), Hutterer (1981a), Hutterer & Jenkins (1983), Hutterer, Sidiyene & Tranier (1991), Jacquet et al. (2015), Yalden et al. (1996).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura

Loc

Crocidura somalica

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson 2018
2018
Loc

Crocidura (Crocidura) somalica

Thomas 1895
1895
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