Crocidura picea Sanderson, 1940
Cameroonian shrew, Pitch shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1940
Rediscovered: 1999
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Sanderson, I.T. 1940. The mammals of the North Cameroons Forest Area being the results of the Percy Sladen Expedition to the Mamfe Division of the British Cameroons. Transnatinoal Zoological Society of London 24: 623-725.
Other references:
Heim de Balsac, H. and Hutterer, R. 1982. Les Soricidae (Mammifères Insectivores) des îles du Golfe de Guinée: Faits nouveaux et problèmes biogeographiques. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 33: 133-150.
Hutterer, R. 2005. Order Soricomorpha. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 220-311. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Hutterer, R. & Howell, K. (2008). Crocidura picea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T5636A11452934. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T5636A11452934.en. Downloaded on 15 February 2017.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Schlitter, D.A., Hutterer, R., Maddalena, T. and Robbins, L.W. 1999. New karyotypes of shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Cameroon and Somalia. Annals of Carnegie Museum 68: 1-13.