. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. THORN & KERBIS PETERHANS, SMALL MAMMALS OF UGANDA Range. Hutterer (1993) listed this species first from Uganda. Although originally described from the D. R. Congo side of Ruwenzori, it does not seem to oc- cur on the Uganda slopes of the same massif and the only Uganda localiu' seems an extension of the species occurrence from about 2°S in D. R. Congo, through W Burundi and W Rwanda. Fig. 60 displays the Ugandan distribution. Southern. Ruhija 2350 m (FMNH 157830). Measurements. (Hutterer 1986) HB 92-95; T 55-62; HF 16-17; E 7; WTC 18; SK
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. THORN & KERBIS PETERHANS, SMALL MAMMALS OF UGANDA Range. Hutterer (1993) listed this species first from Uganda. Although originally described from the D. R. Congo side of Ruwenzori, it does not seem to oc- cur on the Uganda slopes of the same massif and the only Uganda localiu' seems an extension of the species occurrence from about 2°S in D. R. Congo, through W Burundi and W Rwanda. Fig. 60 displays the Ugandan distribution. Southern. Ruhija 2350 m (FMNH 157830). Measurements. (Hutterer 1986) HB 92-95; T 55-62; HF 16-17; E 7; WTC 18; SK ; XBC ; XIO ; XMX ; UTR Querouil et al. (2001) found molecular afifmit)'with Suncus. One of us (JKP) noted semi-aquatic behavior, apparently unique among African Soricidae; also see Vogels Kopchen (1978). Stephan et al. (1991) studied its brain structure. Crocidura littoralis. Fig. 53E Crocidura littoralis Heller 1910, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 56: 5; Butiaba (Uganda 1°49'N 31°19'E). Crocidura oritis HoUister 1916, Bui. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35: 666; Avakubi (D. R. Congo 1°18'N 27°35'E). Range. This single shrew, discovered in W Uganda in 1910, and still the only Uganda example known, seems to be less rare in NE D. R. Congo (HoUister 1916, Balsac & Verschuren 1968, Dieterlen & Balsac 1979) and has been subsequently reported in wooded hills of S Sudan (Hutterer & Dieterlen 1981), Ca-. FIG. 61. Distribution of select Crocidura (Soricidae): Crocidura macarthuri (A), Crocidura maurisca (â¢), Crocidura littoralis (â ), Crocidura India (â¡). Shaded areas indicate lakes. meroon, Central African Republic, Angola, and W Kenya (Dippenaar 1980), but see below. Fig. 61 di- splays the Ugandan distribution. Western. Butiaba (USNM 164642, Type, Dieterlen & Balsac 1979). Measurements. (Butiaba) HB 96; T 67; HF 16; SK 24; XMX ; XIO ; XBC ; UTR No less than 23 shrews closely resembling this spe- cies were taken by t
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