Type specimens of “ insectivoran ” mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Author
Turni, Hendrik
Author
Hutterer, Rainer
Author
Asher, Robert
text
Zootaxa
2007
1470
1
33
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273750
b791e095-c2b5-46d1-8666-d67f9f3c4347
1175-5326
273750
Crocidura hirta
Peters, 1852
Peters, W.C.H.
(
1852
)
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf Befehl seiner Majestãt des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis
1848
ausgeführt.
Berlin
, p.
78
.
Valid name:
Crocidura hirta
Peters, 1852
Syntypes
: ZMB 668, male, skin, skull; ZMB 669, gravid female, skin, skull. Both specimens were collected by W. Peters from Tette,
Mozambique
between
1843 and 1847
.
Comments: Peters (1852, p. 81), noted three specimens (
1 male
and
2 females
, one of which was gravid). The non-gravid female does not appear to be in the ZMB collection.