Elephantulus rufescens (Peters 1878)

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 : 83

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scientific name

Elephantulus rufescens (Peters 1878)
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[Macroscelides] rufescens Peters 1878 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1878: 198.

Type Locality: Kenya, Taita, Ndi.

Vernacular Names: Rufous Elephant Shrew.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Elephantulus rufescens subsp. rufescens Peters 1878

Subspecies Elephantulus rufescens subsp. boranus Thomas 1901

Subspecies Elephantulus rufescens subsp. dundasi Dollman 1910

Subspecies Elephantulus rufescens subsp. peasei Thomas 1901

Subspecies Elephantulus rufescens subsp. pulcher Thomas 1894

Subspecies Elephantulus rufescens subsp. somalicus Thomas 1901

Distribution: S and E Ethiopia; Kenya; E Uganda; S Sudan; N, C and W Tanzania; N and S Somalia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Corbet (1974:5) provisionally recognized six subspecies based on considerable but discontinuous variation. See Koontz and Roeper (1983, Mammalian Species, 204).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Macroscelidea

Family

Macroscelididae

Genus

Elephantulus

Loc

Elephantulus rufescens (Peters 1878)

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

[Macroscelides] rufescens

Peters 1878: 198
1878
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