Schlitter's Mole Shrew

Surdisorex schlitteri

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae

Represented by a single specimen, the Mount Elgon mole shrew (Surdisorex schlitteri) is a species of African mole shrew known to date only from the ericaceous zone of Mount Elgon in Western Kenya. In 1984, a specimen of the genus Surdisorex was collected on a footpath at 3,150 m (10,330 ft) of the Kenyan slope of Mount Elgon. It was described as the third member of the genus Surdisorex by Kerbis Peterhans in 2009.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

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Schlitter's Mole Shrew

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