Roosevelt's Shrew - Crocidura roosevelti
( Heller, 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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Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
This species is found in moist savanna around the Congo Basin forest block. It inhabits lowlands, under 1,200 m asl.

Range:
Crocidura roosevelti occurs across the forest-savanna margin of the Central African forest block. There are records from Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania (Hutterer 1981). It is possibly present in Sudan. Its elevational upper limit is between 900 and 1,200 m asl.

Conservation:
C. roosevelti is found in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda and Garamba National Park in northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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