Crocidura fischeri

Pagenstecher, 1885

Fischer's Shrew

Type Description:

Jb. Hamburger Wiss. Anst., 2:34.

Type Locality:

'Nguruman'; northwest of Lake Natron, close to Mt. Sambo, Kenya (near border to Tanzania); see discussion by Moreau et al. (1946) and Aggundey and Schlitter (1986).

Measurements:

Head and body: 45-140 mm

Tail length: 45-90 mm

Weight: 11-40 g

Distribution:

Crocidura fischeri can be found in all vegetation types and altitudes throughout Kenya and Tanzania. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997) (Wilson and Reeder, 2005)

Figure 1.

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. 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.
4. 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, 1:230.