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4693, an adult female collected by Teresa Kearney, Albert Kumirai, Peter Taylor, and Peter Wright on
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. The specimen is represented by a skin and skull in good condition. The external measurements are as follows (in mm): total length 120; tail length 40, hindfoot length (
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. The extremely small cranial size is indicated by cranial measurements (in mm) as follows (see abbreviations under Material and methods): CI 20.6; PPL 9.46;
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. The anterior margin of the medial palatal foramen overlaps with the posterior margins of the two lateral foramina (
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). The fourth upper unicuspid is tiny and bordered by teeth, which are almost touching because of the curved extension of the parastyle of the third upper unicuspid (
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). The pelage coloration is brownish rather than blackish above and below, with pale hindfoot and bicoloured tail, similar to
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Chingamwe Estates,
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south-east of Juliasdale, Inyanga Mountains, eastern
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(18.4625°S, 32.753°E). The specimen was trapped with a Sherman trap in tall grassland bordering a young pine plantation.
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An additional 21 shrews were collected from the same series (
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: 4641, 4642, 4643, 4644, 4645, 4646, 4647, 4648, 4651, 4652, 4655, 4656, 4664, 4665, 4678, 4679, 4680, 4688, 4694, 5003, 5004).
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAB9803DDBFF9F7C073661C" box="[144,370,1588,1610]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="897">Referred specimens:</emphasis>
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See the Appendix.
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAB9803DDBFF941C00666C1" box="[144,263,1666,1687]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="897">Etymology</emphasis>
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This species is named after J.A.J. ‘Waldo’ Meester who made a significant contribution to African mammalogy, most particularly through his authorship of two landmark volumes:
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAB9803DF23F93EC0B16766" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="897">Mammals of Africa: an Identification Manual</emphasis>
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(1971–1977) and
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAB9803DFAFF8D8C3276719" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="897">Classification of Southern African Mammals</emphasis>
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(1986). He was a shrew specialist whose early work drew attention to the enigmatic taxonomic status of
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DF05FF05C392608D" box="[554,659,198,219]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Myosorex</emphasis>
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from
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="EFEEDEBCFFAA9802DC2EFF26C0A960AC" author="Meester JAJ" box="[257,424,228,250]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" pagination="325 - 339" refId="ref13099" refString="Meester JAJ. 1958. Variation in the shrew genus Myosorex in southern Africa. Journal of Mammalogy 39: 325 - 339." type="journal article" year="1958">Meester, 1958</bibRefCitation>
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), which we now name in his honour.
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A238C224FFAB9803D92FF880C5576700" box="[1024,1110,1859,1878]" pageId="16" pageNumber="897" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</emphasis>
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(DM 4693). Scale bar: 2 mm.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<paragraph id="8BC0A34DFFAA9802DD8BFE8BC015610B" blockId="17.[164,779,328,686]" box="[164,276,328,349]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DD8BFE8BC015610B" box="[164,276,328,349]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BC0A34DFFAA9802DD8BFEA5C3AD62F8" blockId="17.[164,779,328,686]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">
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Individuals of this species can be readily distinguished from South African
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<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DCDDFE45C3B761CD" box="[498,694,389,411]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="undetermined">
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DCDDFE45C35A61CD" box="[498,603,390,411]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Myosorex</emphasis>
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species
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</taxonomicName>
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by the presence of a ‘tiny’ fourth upper unicuspid tooth, bordered by teeth that are touching or almost touching because of a curved extension of the parastyle of the anterior premolar (
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<figureCitation id="1344BFC8FFAA9802DC9AFE3CC0F86243" box="[437,505,511,533]" captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="15.[164,243,1536,1555]" captionTargetBox="[325,1281,197,1503]" captionTargetId="figure-61@15.[323,1284,195,1507]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 6. Photographs of the fourth unicuspid and adjacent molars in the upper tooth rows of: (A) TM 10448, Myosorex sclateri (Ngoye Hills, KwaZulu-Natal); (B) TM 41824, Myosorex varius (Karkloof, KwaZulu-Natal); (C) TM 793, Myosorex cf. tenuis (Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanaga); (D) TM 25843, Myosorex cf. tenuis (Entabeni, Soutpansberg Range, Limpopo); (E) TM 34613, Myosorex meesteri sp. nov. (Mount Selinda, Chirinda Forest, Zimbabwe)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5291893" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5291893/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
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;
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<tableCitation id="C6FD96F6FFAA9802DF27FE3CC35D6243" box="[520,604,511,533]" captionStart="Table 7" captionStartId="14.[144,208,745,766]" captionText="Table 7. Variation in craniodental and pelage diagnostic traits in different Myosorex operational taxonomic units (OTUs)" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Table 7</tableCitation>
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). This feature, together with small cranial size (
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<figureCitation id="1344BFC8FFAA9802DF1AFDDDC3786265" box="[565,633,542,564]" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="12.[144,223,767,786]" captionTargetBox="[147,756,198,736]" captionTargetId="graphics-600@12.[230,756,197,682]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="Figure 4. Canonical variate analysis (CVA) of ten logtransformed craniometric variables in six operational taxonomic units (OTUs) of Myosorex from southern and eastern Africa; ○, Zimbabwe–Mozambique; ●, Myosorex kihaulei and Myosorex geata (Tanzania); ▲, east Soutpansberg; △, north Drakensberg + west Soutpansberg; ×, Myosorex varius; +, Myosorex cafer (topotypic). The first two canonical vectors explained 72.7 and 14.7%, respectively, of the total variance." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5291887" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5291887/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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;
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||
<tableCitation id="C6FD96F6FFAA9802DFA6FDDDC3DD6262" box="[649,732,542,564]" captionStart="Table 3" captionStartId="8.[144,208,437,458]" captionText="Table 3. Summary of mass, external body, and craniodental measurements in the Myosorex operational taxonomic units (OTUs) defined in this study" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Table 3</tableCitation>
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), is shared with Tanzanian species (
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DF4CFDFEC3C56204" baseAuthorityName="Allen & Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1927" box="[611,708,573,594]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="geata">
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DF4CFDFEC3C56204" box="[611,708,573,594]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">M. geata</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DD8BFD9FC0276226" authorityName="Stanley & Hutterer" authorityYear="2000" box="[164,294,603,625]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kihaulei">
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||
<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DD8BFD9FC0276226" box="[164,294,603,625]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">M. kihaulei</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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); however,
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DC9BFD9FC3376227" authority="Taylor & Kearney & Kerbis Peterhans & Baxter & Willows-Munro, 2013" authorityName="Taylor & Kearney & Kerbis Peterhans & Baxter & Willows-Munro" authorityYear="2013" box="[436,566,604,625]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="meesteri" status="sp. nov.">
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||
<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DC9BFD9FC3376227" box="[436,566,604,625]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">M. meesteri</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A238C224FFAA9802DF12FD98C3906226" box="[573,657,603,624]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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||
is clearly distinguished on molecular and biogeographical grounds from the Tanzanian species (
|
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<figureCitation id="1344BFC8FFAA9802DF73FD5BC39E62F8" box="[604,671,664,686]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="6.[144,223,1301,1322]" captionTargetBox="[147,1843,655,1196]" captionTargetId="graphics-0@6.[150,1843,652,1168]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figure 2. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny (left) and maximum clade probability tree (right), inferred from the combined analysis of molecular data (mitochondrial DNA control region, 16S rRNA, and the nuclear intron STAT). The newly resurrected or described species Myosorex tenuis and Myosorex meesteri sp. nov. are in bold. Maximum-likelihood bootstrap and posterior probability (in that order) values are shown for nodes of the maximum-likelihood tree. Values above nodes of the maximum clade probability tree indicate the posterior mean divergence dates in millions of years before present. Shaded bars indicate the 95% highest posterior density (HPD) credibility intervals. Values below the nodes indicate posterior probability values generated during the BEAST dating analysis." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5291881" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5291881/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BC0A34DFFAA9802DD8BFD1EC02462A4" blockId="17.[164,779,733,1030]" box="[164,293,733,754]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DD8BFD1EC02462A4" box="[164,293,733,754]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Description</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BC0A34DFFAA9802DD8BFD38C0C66450" blockId="17.[164,779,733,1030]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">
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This is a small species of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DCCBFD3FC34C6347" authorityName="GRAY" authorityYear="1838" box="[484,589,764,785]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DCCBFD3FC34C6347" box="[484,589,764,785]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Myosorex</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, particularly in cranial dimensions (
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||
<tableCitation id="C6FD96F6FFAA9802DCA2FCD9C0E36366" box="[397,482,794,816]" captionStart="Table 3" captionStartId="8.[144,208,437,458]" captionText="Table 3. Summary of mass, external body, and craniodental measurements in the Myosorex operational taxonomic units (OTUs) defined in this study" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Table 3</tableCitation>
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||
). In its pelage colour it is most like
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DC0BFCFAC0906318" box="[292,401,825,846]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="varius">
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||
<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DC0BFCFAC0906318" box="[292,401,825,846]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">M. varius</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, having brownish rather than blackish dorsal pelage and relatively pale hindfeet and a bicoloured tail. Similarly, in its predominantly overlapping medial and lateral palatal foramina it is most like
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C7FD8CEFFAA9802DC3BFC77C080639F" box="[276,385,948,969]" class="Mammalia" family="Soricidae" genus="Myosorex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="varius">
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<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DC3BFC77C080639F" box="[276,385,948,969]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">M. varius</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
; however, in a few cases (13%) the foramina do not overlap or the medial foramina may be missing (8%;
|
||
<tableCitation id="C6FD96F6FFAA9802DC4AFC33C0B86450" box="[357,441,1008,1030]" captionStart="Table 7" captionStartId="14.[144,208,745,766]" captionText="Table 7. Variation in craniodental and pelage diagnostic traits in different Myosorex operational taxonomic units (OTUs)" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Table 7</tableCitation>
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).
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BC0A34DFFAA9802DD8BFBF6C0BE641C" blockId="17.[164,779,1077,1527]" box="[164,447,1077,1098]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">
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||
<emphasis id="B90B7F5FFFAA9802DD8BFBF6C0BE641C" box="[164,447,1077,1098]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Distribution and biology</emphasis>
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="8BC0A34DFFAA9802DD8BFB90C33065A1" blockId="17.[164,779,1077,1527]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">
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||
The species is endemic to the Eastern Zimbabwean montane forest–grassland mosaic ecoregion of the Eastern Highlands of
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F368E3DDFFAA9802DCE5FB52C33E64F1" box="[458,575,1169,1191]" name="Zimbabwe" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
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||
and of Mount Gorongosa, Gorongosa National Park of
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F368E3DDFFAA9802DF5DFB6CC2066493" box="[626,775,1199,1221]" name="Mozambique" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Mozambique</collectingCountry>
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||
. The
|
||
<typeStatus id="54C41DEFFFAA9802DDF9FB0DC00664B5" box="[214,263,1230,1251]" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">type</typeStatus>
|
||
series from Inyanga Mountains of
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F368E3DDFFAA9802DFBAFB0DC20B64B2" box="[661,778,1230,1252]" name="Zimbabwe" pageId="17" pageNumber="898">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
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||
were all collected in moist grasslands, sometimes bordering a dam or pine plantations, but never in forest. On Mount Gorongosa, it was by far the most common small terrestrial mammal caught, comprising almost 50% of all captures. It is restricted to the moist montane forest (
|
||
<quantity id="4C870EA8FFAA9802DC80FA46C34765CD" box="[431,582,1413,1435]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.35" metricValueMax="1.58" metricValueMin="1.1199999999999999" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" unit="m" value="1350.0" valueMax="1580.0" valueMin="1120.0">1120–1580 m</quantity>
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||
a.s.l) and alpine meadows (
|
||
<quantity id="4C870EA8FFAA9802DC34FA67C0B565EF" box="[283,436,1444,1466]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.69" metricValueMax="1.7" metricValueMin="1.68" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" unit="m" value="1690.0" valueMax="1700.0" valueMin="1680.0">1680–1700 m</quantity>
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||
a.s.l.), and is not found in the drier scrubbier areas, nor even amid the gallery forest below (elevation
|
||
<quantity id="4C870EA8FFAA9802DC46FA22C0E465A1" box="[361,485,1505,1527]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="8.65" metricValueMax="9.4" metricValueMin="7.9" pageId="17" pageNumber="898" unit="m" value="865.0" valueMax="940.0" valueMin="790.0">790–940 m</quantity>
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||
a.s.l.).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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||
</treatment>
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</document> |