Biology:West African pygmy shrew
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Short description: Species of mammal
| West African pygmy shrew | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Crocidura |
| Species: | C. obscurior
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| Binomial name | |
| Crocidura obscurior Balsac, 1958
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| West African pygmy shrew range | |
The West African pygmy shrew or obscure white-toothed shrew (Crocidura obscurior) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[2]
The Ivory Coast white-toothed shrew (C. eburnea), which is sympatric with C. obscurior in Ivory Coast, Liberia & Guinea, and closely resembles it aside from having a longer skull, was considered conspecific with C. obscurior until a 2014 study delineated both as being genetically distinct sister species to one another.[3]
References
- ↑ Nicolas, V.; Dando, T.; Kennerley, R. (2017). "Crocidura obscurior". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T111754705A123795806. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T111754705A111754743.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/111754705/123795806. Retrieved 10 March 2022.{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)
- ↑ "Explore the Database". https://www.mammaldiversity.org/explore.html#species-id=1003972.
- ↑ Jacquet, François; Nicolas, Violaine; Colyn, Marc; Kadjo, Blaise; Hutterer, Rainer; Decher, Jan; Akpatou, Bertin; Cruaud, Corinne et al. (2014). "Forest refugia and riverine barriers promote diversification in the West African pygmy shrew (Crocidura obscurior complex, Soricomorpha)". Zoologica Scripta 43 (2): 131–148. doi:10.1111/zsc.12039. https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00999609.
Wikidata ☰ Q1761703 entry
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