Crocidura polia Hollister, 1916
Fuscous shrew, Polia's shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1916 or before; 1916 (Martin et al., 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Medje, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hollister, N. (1916). Shrews collected by the Congo Expedition of the American Museum. Bulletin of the Americdan Museum of Natural History 35: 663-680.
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 Meester, J. (1977). Order Insectivora. In: J. Meester and H.W. Setzer (eds), The Mammals of Africa: An Identification Manual, pp. 1-29. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., USA.
Hutterer, Rainer. (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.
Kennerley, R. (2016). Crocidura polia (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T5591A115075965. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T5591A22302474.en. Accessed on 28 May 2022.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
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.
Ray, C. J. and Hutterer, Rainer. (2013). Sylvisorex johnstoni Kongana Forest Shrew. In: Happold M. and Happold D.C.D. (eds), Mammals of Africa: Volume IV, pp. 191-192. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
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