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:
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. 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.