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 viaria
I. Geoffroy 1834
Crocidura viaria
I. Geoffroy 1834
,
in: Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes-Orient.: 127
.
Type Locality:
"
Senegal
", restricted to region between
Dakar
and St. Luis by Hutterer (1984).
Vernacular Names:
Savanna Path Shrew
.
Synonyms:
Crocidura bolivari
Morales Agacino 1934
;
Crocidura hindei
Thomas 1904
;
Crocidura suahelae
Heller 1912
;
Crocidura tamrinensis
Vesmanis and Vesmanis 1980
.
Distribution:
Sahelien and
Sudan
savanna from S
Morocco
to
Senegal
and east to
Sudan
,
Ethiopia
and
Kenya
; perhaps further south.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Revised by Hutterer (1984); Possibly includes
suahelae
, which may alternatively belong to
zaphiri
. A member of the
flavescens
species group (Maddalena, 1990), as shown by the karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 66;
Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994
). Isolated Maroccan population reviewed by
Vogel et al. (2000)
.