Crocidura fuscomurina Heuglin 1865

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 231

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Crocidura fuscomurina Heuglin 1865 View in CoL

Crocidura fuscomurina Heuglin 1865 View in CoL , Leopoldina, 5, in: Nova. Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol., 32: 36.

Type Locality: Sudan, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Meshra-el-Req.

Vernacular Names: Bicolored Musk Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura bicolor Bocage 1889 ; Crocidura bovei Dobson 1887 ; Crocidura cuninghamei Thomas 1904 ; Crocidura fuscomurinus (Heuglin 1865) ; Crocidura glebula Dollmann 1916 ; Crocidura hendersoni Dollman 1915 ; Crocidura marita Thomas and Hinton 1923 ; Crocidura sansibarica Neumann 1900 ; Crocidura tephragaster Setzer 1956 ; Crocidura tephronotus Heim de Balsac 1968 ; Crocidura woosnami Dollman 1915 .

Distribution: Sudan and Guinea savanna from Senegal to Ethiopia, and south to South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Hutterer (1983 b). Karyotype from Burundi has 2n = 56, FN = 86 ( Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). C. planiceps may belong here but relationships are yet unsolved.