Alexander's Cusimanse - Crossarchus alexandri
( Thomas & Wroughton, 1907 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It inhabits lowland and montane rainforest. It is commonly found near villages in the Ituri Forest (Ray in Van Rompaey and Colyn 2013).

Range:
This species is endemic to central Africa, where it is confined to rainforest in DR Congo limited in the north by the Ubangi River and in the south by the Kasai River. It is also present in western Uganda. A disjunct population lives on the slopes (between 1,500 and 2,900 m asl) of Mt Elgon, Uganda (Van Rompaey and Colyn 2013). As suggested by Ray (2001), it occurs in southwestern Central African Republic (Sonet et al. 2014, T. Aebischer and R. Hickisch pers. comm. 2014).

Conservation:
This species is present in several protected areas, although the degree of protection varies.

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