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Crocidura viaria
Order: Lipotyphla > Family: Soricidae > Genus: Crocidura > Species: Crocidura viaria
Type Description
In Zool. Voy. De Belanger Indes-Orient., p. 127.
Type Locality
'Senegal', restricted to region between Dakar and St. Luis by Hutterer (1984).
Measurements
Head and body: 45-140 mm
Tail length: 45-90 mm
Weight: 11-40 g
Tail length: 45-90 mm
Weight: 11-40 g
Distribution
Crocidura viaria is found in a wide range of savannas in western, central, and eastern Africa, from southern Morocco down to Senegal and east to the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania (particularly the Udzungwa mountains). (Kingdon, 1984) (Wilson and Reeder, 2005)
Key References
1. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 145-146.
2. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:202-203, 218-222.
3. Stanley, W. T., A. M. Nikundiwe, F. A. Mturi, P. M. Kihaule, and P. D. Moehlman. 2005. Small mammals collected in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania, Journal of East African Natural HIstory, 94(1):203-212.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.
5. Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder (eds.). 2005. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Third ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:253.
2. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:202-203, 218-222.
3. Stanley, W. T., A. M. Nikundiwe, F. A. Mturi, P. M. Kihaule, and P. D. Moehlman. 2005. Small mammals collected in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania, Journal of East African Natural HIstory, 94(1):203-212.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.
5. Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder (eds.). 2005. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Third ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:253.