Crocidura desperata

Hutterer, Jekins and Verheyen, 1991

Desperate Shrew

Figure 1. FMNH 155876. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Oryx, 25:165

Type Locality:

S Tanzania, Rungwa Mtns, mountain bamboo zone above 2000 m.

Measurements:

Total length: 178 mm

Head and body: 45-140 mm

Tail length: 45-90 mm

Hindfoot length: 20 mm

Ear length: 10 mm

Weight: 11-40 g

Distribution:

Crocidura desperata is a h highly restricted group is found in all vegetation types but is more commonly found in forests throughout Rungwe and the Udzungwa mountains. (Kingdon, 1997) (Wilson and Reeder, 2005)

Figure 2.

Key Reference:

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. 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, 1:229.