Ansorge's Cusimanse - Crossarchus ansorgei
( Thomas, 1910 )

 

 

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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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Habitat:
This is an inhabitant of deciduous equatorial forest; not known to visit cultivated or inhabited land (Van Rompaey and Colyn 2013).

Range:
It is found only in Angola and DR Congo. In Angola, it is known only from a single specimen collected in 1908 north of the Cuanza River (Crawford-Cabral 1989). In DR Congo, it is present in the rainforest southeast of the Congo/Lualaba Rivers (Van Rompaey and Colyn 2013).

Conservation:
It has been recorded from Salonga N. P. in DR Congo. There is a paucity of information available for this species, making it a priority for research, particularly to determine its current population status, the extent of its range, as well as threats to it. In particular, a survey for the disjunct population in Angola is urgently needed where it is known only from the holotype (Van Rompaey and Colyn 2013).

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