Peters's Musk Shrew - Crocidura gracilipes
( Peters, 1870 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Jumping Ability: (Horizontal)

Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
The habitats of this species are not known.

Range:
Corcidura gracilipes is known from the holotype, collected at the indistinct type locality of "Auf der Reise nach dem Kilimandscharo" which is usually taken as "Kilimanjaro, Tanzania" (Hutterer 2005). More recently, there have been records in Murchison Falls Protected Area in Uganda (Plumptre et al. 2015), however, these records require confirmation (P. Jenkins pers. comm).

Conservation:
The species has been recorded from Murchison Falls National Park and Bugungu Wildlife Reserve (Plumptre et al. 2015). Additional studies are needed into the taxonomy, distribution, abundance, general ecology and threats to this little-known species.

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