Crocidura yankariensis, Hutterer & Jenkins, 1980
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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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