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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura mariquensis
| Author: | A. Smith, 1844. | | Citation: | Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm.: pl. 44, fig. 1. | | Common Name: | Swamp Musk Shrew | | Type Locality: | South Africa, "A wooded ravine near the tropic of Capricorn" = Marico River, near its junction with Limpopo. | | Distribution: | Swamps and forest from South Africa to Mozambique, W Zimbabwe, and Zambia; NW Botswana and NE Namibia to SC Angola; perhaps SE Dem. Rep. Congo. | | Status: | IUCN � Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Includes pilosa and sylvia as synonyms and shortridgei and neavei as subspecies; see Dippenaar (1977, 1979), who reviewed the species and selected a lectotype. May also include nigricans, which Crawford-Cabral (1987) considered distinct. |
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