Order Insectivora
Author
Rainer Hutterer
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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130
book chapter
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Crocidura nigrofusca
Matschie, 1895
.
Säugethiere Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas, p. 33
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Zaire
, Semliki Valley, "Wukalala, Kinyawanga im Westen des Semliki"
.
DISTRIBUTION: S
Ethiopia
and
Sudan
through E Africa to
Zambia
and
Angola
,
Zaire
, perhaps
Cameroon
.
SYNONYMS:
ansorgei, cabrerai, kempi, lakiundae, luluae, nilotica, nyikae, provocax, soricoides (?), zaodon, zena
(see
Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977
).
COMMENTS: Includes
luluae
Matschie, 1926 (Luluabourg,
Zaire
) and
zaodon
Osgood, 1910
(Nairobi,
Kenya
) which were listed as separate species by
Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977)
and
Dippenaar and Meester (1989)
; see
Hutterer et al. (1987b)
. The
holotypes
of
nigrofusca
, luluae
and
zaodon
have been studied.
Gureev (1979)
listed
ansorgei, nilotica,
and
zena
as distinct species without comment.