Crocidura yankariensis, Hutterer & Jenkins, 1980

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Soricidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 332-551 : 535-536

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6870843

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6870470

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scientific name

Crocidura yankariensis
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403. View Plate 24: Soricidae

Yankari White-toothed Shrew

Crocidura yankariensis View in CoL

French: Crocidure de Yankari / German: Yankari-Weizahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Yankari

Other common names: Yankari Shrew

Taxonomy. Crocidura yankariensis Hutterer & Jenkins, 1980 View in CoL ,

Futuk (9°50’N, 10°55°E), 16 km east of Yankari Game Reserve boundary, Bauchi State, Nigeria. GoogleMaps

Taxonomy of C. yankariensis is uncertain. It was confused with C. somalica until its description. Monotypic.

Distribution. Scattered localities in NE Nigeria, N Cameroon, S Sudan, NW Ethiopia, NW Kenya, and S Somalia. View Figure

Descriptive notes. Head—body 52-66 mm,

tail 34-41 mm, ear 6-8 mm, hindfoot 9-10 mm; weight 4-5 g. The Yankari Whitetoothed Shrew is small, with short pelage. Dorsum is olive-brown (hairs are gray basally and brown-tipped), and ventral pelage is smoky gray or grayish olive (hairs are uniformly gray) and merges with dorsum on flanks with little delineation. Lower parts of hindlimbs are unique without brownish hair. Ears are large and covered with fine hairs and stiff bristles on inner folds. Feet are white. Tail is ¢.67% of head—body length, hairy, and bicolored, being brown above and whitish below. Skull profile slopes gradually upward anteriorly. There are three unicuspids. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 68 and FN = 122.

Habitat. Primarily dry savanna. A Yankari White-toothed Shrew was found in shrubs and boulders in wet grasslands in Ethiopia.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. No information.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. The Yankari White-toothed Shrew is known from very few scattered specimens over a broad distribution. Virtually nothing is known of it natural history and conservation status, so additional research is needed.

Bibliography. Cassola (2016au), Hutterer (2013y), Hutterer & Happold (1983), Hutterer & Jenkins (1980), Schlitter et al. (1999).

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386. Nimba Giant White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura maombasilvanus), 387. Doucet’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura douceti), 388. West African White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura muricauda), 389. Lamotte’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lamottei), 390. Greater Red White-toothed (Shrew Crociduraflavescens), 391. Lesser Red White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hirta), 392. Heather White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura erica), 393. Blackish White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nigricans), 394. Goliath White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura goliath), 395. Somali White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura somalica), 396. African Giant White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura olivieri), 397. Savanna Path White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura viaria), 398. Savanna White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fulvastra), 399. Ugandan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura mutesae), 400. Smallfooted White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura parvipes), 401. Cinderella White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura cinderella), 402. Voi White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura vor), 403. Yankari White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura yankariensis), 404. Kahuzi White-toothed Swamp Shrew (Crocidura stenocephala), 405. Tarella White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura tarella), 406. Jackson's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura jacksoni), 407. Kivu Long-haired White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lanosa), 408. Dramatic White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ludia), 409. Long-tailed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura dolichura), 410. Savanna White-toothed Swamp Shrew (Crocidura longipes), 411. Cameroon White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura picea), 412. Manenguba White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura manengubae), 413. Fisentraut’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura eisentraut), 414. Upemba White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura zimmer), 415. Misotshi-Kabogo White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lwiroensis), 416. African Dusky White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura caliginea), 417. Congo White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura congobelgica), 418. Latona’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura latona), 419. Polia’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura polia), 420. Ansell’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ansellorum), 421. Pitman’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura pitmani), 422. Makwassie White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura maquassiensis), 423. Turbo White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura turba)

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Distribution. Scattered localities in NE Nigeria, N Cameroon, S Sudan, NW Ethiopia, NW Kenya, and S Somalia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Crocidura