Crocidura wimmeri Balsac & Aellen, 1958:952
Wimmer's shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1976 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)
Rediscovered in 2008 (Kadjo et al., 2013)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Ivory Coast
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
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.
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
Hutterer, R. (2008). Crocidura wimmeri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 June 2011.
Kadjo, Blaise et al. (2013). Assessment of terrestrial small mammals and a record of the critically endangered shrew Crocidura wimmeri in Banco National Park (Côte d’Ivoire). Mammalia Volume 0, Issue 0, Pages 1–8, ISSN (Online) 1864-1547, ISSN (Print) 0025-1461, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2012-0083, April 2013 [Abstract]
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
Vogel, Peter. (1976). Energy Consumption of European and African Shrews. Acta Theriologica 21(13): 195-206.
Vogel, Peter, Genoud, M. and Frey, H. (1981). Daily Activity Patterns in Some African and European Crocidurinae (Soricidae, Insectivora). Terre Et La Vie 35(1): 97-108. [Abstract]
Vogel, P., Vogel, V., Fumagalli, L., Kadjo, B., Kouadio, R. Y. and Dubey, S. (2013). Genetic identity of the critically endangered Wimmer's shrew Crocidura wimmeri. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi: 10.1111/bij.12196 [Abstract]