Order Soricomorpha
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
220
311
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Crocidura parvipes
Osgood 1910
Crocidura parvipes
Osgood 1910
,
Field
Mus
. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 19
.
Type Locality:
Kenya
, "Voi,
British East Africa
".
Vernacular Names:
Small-footed Shrew
.
Synonyms:
Crocidura boydi
Dollman 1915
;
Crocidura chitauensis
Hill and Carter 1937
;
Crocidura cuanzensis
Hill and Carter 1937
;
Crocidura katharina
Kershaw 1922
;
Crocidura lutrella
Heller 1910
;
Crocidura nisa
Hollister 1916
.
Distribution:
Africa;
Guinea
and
Sudan
savanna from
Cameroon
to S
Sudan
,
Ethiopia
(
Hutterer and Yalden, 1990
),
Kenya
,
Tanzania
, S Dem. Rep.
Congo
,
Zambia
to
Angola
(
Hutterer, 1986
a
:31
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
A cranially and externally distinct group of medium-sized savanna shrews. Included in subgenus
Afrosorex
by
Hutterer (1986
a
)
. Considerable size variation, however, may indicate that more than one species is included. Karyotypes from
Ethiopia
(2n = 50;
Bannikova et al., 2001
b
) and from
Cameroon
(2n = 52, FN = 66;
Schlitter et al., 1999
) are different. Specimens recorded as
Crocidura butleri percivali
from
Machakos
,
Kenya
(
Harrison and Bates, 1986
) represent
C. parvipes
.