Congosorex polli Balsac & Lamotte, 1956
Greater Congo shrew, Poll's shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Myosorex polli Heim de Balsac & Lamotte, 1956
Conservation Status
Missing
Poll's Shrew is only known from the holotype, but probably survives. Surveys are needed to determine the full extent of its occurrence.
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Kasai, Labondai, Democratic Republic of Congo
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Heim de Balsac, H. and Lamotte, M. (1956). Evolution et phylogénie des Soricidés africaines. Mammalia 20: 140-167.
Other references:
Baillie, Jonathan and Groombridge, Brian. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.
Heim de Balsac, H. (1967). Faits nouveaux concernant les Myosorex (Soricidae) de l'Afrique orientale. Mammalia 31: 610-628.
Hutterer, R. (1993). Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130, in Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1206 pp.
Hutterer, Rainer. (2008). Congosorex polli. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 June 2011.
Nicoll, M. E. and Rathbun, G. B. (1990). African Insectivora and elephant-shrews: An action plan for their conservation. IUCN/SSC Insectivore, Tree-Shrew and Elephant-Shrew Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Queroil, S., R. Hutterer, P. Barrière, M. Colyn, J. C. Kerbis Peterhans, and E. Verheyen. (2001). Phylogeny and evolution of African shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) inferred from 16s rRNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 20: 185-195.
Tafesse , Israel Sebsibe and Yohannes, Yordanos Berihun. (2022). New conservation status for data-deficient endemic mammals of East Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation 65: 126121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126121