Crocidura lamottei Heim de Balsac 1968
Creators: name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
name: Wilson, Don E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Soricomorpha
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura lamottei

description: 389. Lamotte’s White-toothed Shrew <i>Crocidura lamottei</i> <b>French:</b> Crocidure de Lamotte / <b>German:</b> Lamotte-WeiRzahnspitzmaus / <b>Spanish:</b> Musarana de Lamotte <b>Other common names:</b> Lamotte’'s Shrew <b>Taxonomy.</b> Crocidura lamottee Heim de Balsac, 1968, Lamto, Cote d’lIvoire (= Ivory Coast). Crocidura lamottei seems to be sister to a clade including C. flavescens, C. hirta, C. olivier, C. fulvastra, C. viaria, and C. goliath. Taxon elegans has been included as a subspecies, but it is considered a synonym here until additional investigation can clarify relationships. Monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> West Africa from Senegal E to Nigeria and extreme SW Cameroon. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body 85-90 mm, tail 35-5-55 mm, ear 11-12 mm, hindfoot 14-16 mm; weight 18-23 g. Lamotte’s White-toothed Shrew is relatively large. Dorsal pelage is pale brown to gray-brown without flecking (hairs are bluish gray with brown tips), and ventral pelage is gray to silvery gray, washed with yellowish tint (hairs are medium gray basally with creamy gray tips). Vibrissae are long, and ears are conspicuous and covered with short hairs. Hindfeet are relatively short, and feet are flesh-colored and covered with short pale brown hair. Tail is ¢.53% of head-body length, thick (thicker near base and narrowing near tip), hairy, and flesh-colored with reddish blotches. Skull is similar to that of the Voi White-toothed Shrew (C. voi) but larger; I' are long and hooked; M? is narrow; and mandible is very robust, particularly at coronoid process. There are three unicuspids. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 52 and FN = 68. <b>Habitat.</b> Variety of habitats including dry forests, grasslands in savanna, dry grass on rocky hillsides, and grassy clearings. There is one record from rainforest, but Lamotte’s White-toothed Shrews prefer dry areas. Some individuals have been found in termite mounds. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> No information. <b>Breeding.</b> A pregnant Lamotte’s White-toothed Shrew with a single embryo was captured in the dry season in Ghana. <b>Activity patterns.</b> No information. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> No information. <b>Status and Conservation.</b> Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Lamotte’s White-toothed Shrew has a wide distribution, is considered common, and found in several nature reserves including Korup National Park in Cameroon. <b>Bibliography.</b> Decher et al. (1997), Heim de Balsac (1968c, 1974), Hutterer (2016j), Hutterer &amp; Happold (1983), Hutterer &amp; Schlitter (1996), Jacquet et al. (2013), Maddalena (1990), Meinig (2000), Vogel et al. (2013), Ziegler etal. (2002).
description: Published as part of <i>Russell A. Mittermeier &amp; Don E. Wilson, 2018, Soricidae, pp. 332-551 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions</i> on pages 531-532, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6870843