Crocidura parvipes Osgood 1910
Creators: name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
name: Wilson, Don E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Soricomorpha
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura parvipes

description: 400. Smallfooted White-toothed Shrew <i>Crocidura parvipes</i> <b>French:</b> Crocidure a pattes courtes / <b>German:</b> Kleinful3-WeiRzahnspitzmaus / <b>Spanish:</b> Musarana de pies pequenos <b>Other common names:</b> Small-footed Shrew <b>Taxonomy.</b> Crocidura parvipes Osgood, 1910, Voi, British East Africa (= Kenya). Crocidura parvipes is considerably variable and might represent 4-5 distinct species. Its phylogenetic position is uncertain, although one genetic study placed it close to C. olwieri, C. hirta, and C. flavescens. Monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> Distribution is still rather unknown as there are few widely scattered specimens from Cameroon, Central African Republic, and S South Sudan S to Angola, Zambia, and N Tanzania; largest continual portion of the distribution is in East Africa from S South Sudan to N Tanzania. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body 68-85 mm, tail 32-52 mm, ear 5-10 mm, hindfoot 10-13 mm; weight 8-12 g. The Small-footed White-toothed Shrew is mediumsized, with soft, dense, and silky sheened pelage. Dorsal pelage is medium brown, washed with pale brownish gray (hairs are medium gray on basal two-thirds, with pale brownish gray subterminal band and brown tips), and ventral pelage is creamy white and sometimes silvery white (hairs are gray with creamy gray tips); sharp delineation between venter and dorsum is evident. Flank gland is elongated and covered with short white hairs on each side of body. Ears are large, and feet are flesh-colored and covered with short pale brown or creamy hairs. Hindfeet are relatively short. Tail is ¢.45-60% of head-body length, thicker at base and tapering toward tip, hairy, and bicolored, being medium brown above and paler below. [' are moderately long and slightly hooked; M? is medium-sized to narrow. There are three unicuspids. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 52 and FN = 66 (Cameroon) and 2n = 50 (Ethiopia). <b>Habitat.</b> Primarily dry savanna. There are records of Small-footed White-toothed Shrews from gallery forests. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> No information. <b>Breeding.</b> No information. <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. There are few scattered records of Smallfooted White-toothed Shrew throughout central and eastern Africa over a very wide distribution. Although it is rarely collected, it does not seem to have any major threats. <b>Bibliography.</b> Aggundey &amp; Schlitter (1986), Bannikova et al. (2005), Burgess et al. (2000), Heim de Balsac &amp; Meester (1977), Hutterer (2013s), Hutterer, Baxter &amp; Howell (2016), Lavrenchenko et al. (2009), Setzer (1956), Thorn et al. (2009), Yalden et al. (1996).
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 page 535, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6870843