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Peters’s White-toothed Shrew

Crocidura gracilipes

French: Crocidure du Kilimandjaro / German: Peters-WeiRzahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de Peters

Other common names: Peters’'s Musk Shrew, Short-faced Shrew

Taxonomy. Crocidura gracilipes Peters, 1870,

“ Auf der Reise nach dem Kilimandscharo [= on the journey to Kilimanjaro],” Tanzania.

May be conspecific with C. cyanea, but further research and specimens are needed. Monotypic.

Distribution. Uncertain, but the type locality is generally accepted to be Mt Kilimanjaro, NE Tanzania; there are further reports of this species throughout W & E Africa (including some recent ones from Uganda), but they cannot be confirmed since most of the specimens have been wrongly attributed.

Descriptive notes. Head—body 65 mm, tail 52 mm, ear 6-5 mm, hindfoot 13 mm (one specimen). No specific data are available for body weight. Peters’s White-toothed Shrew is a small shrew. Dorsal pelage is cinnamon brown; ventral pelage is grayish brown, with the base of the hairs slate gray. Feet covered in sparse cinnamon-colored hairs. Tail is relatively long (c.80% of head-body length), thin, bicolored, being brown above and grayish brown below, and covered in scattered bristle hairs. There are three unicuspids.

Habitat. There is no information available regarding habitat, but it may be Afromontane forest.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. Peters’s White-toothed Shrew is terrestrial.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The holotype is the only certain record ofthis species;it was collected around 150 years ago.

Bibliography. Jenkins (2016a), Jenkins & Churchfield (2013c), Moreau et al. (1946), Plumptre et al. (2015).