Crocidura thomensis Bocage, 1887
São Tomé shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1896
Rediscovered: December 1971
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
São Tomé
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bocage, J. V. B. (1887). Sur un mammifère nouveau de l’Ile de St. Thomé, Sorex (Crocidura) thomensis. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes 11: 212-213.
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.
de Lima, Ricardo Faustino et al. (2015). Reassessing the conservation status of the shrew Crocidura thomensis, endemic to São Tomé Island. Oryx. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003060531400091X
Dutton, J. and Haft, J. (1996). Distribution, ecology and status of an endemic shrew, Crocidura thomensis, from Sao Tomé. Oryx 30: 195-201.
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. (2008). Crocidura thomensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 02 June 2015.
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