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Somali Elephant Shrew
Galegeeska revoili (Huet, 1881)
Also calledSomali Sengi (eng)
This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.
- Recorded from
- Africa
- Also published as
- Elephantulus revoili (Huet, 1881); Macroscelides revoili Huet, 1881
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Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Galegeeska revoili in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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References
- Krásová, Jarmila, Ondrej Mikula, Radim Sumbera, Sylvie Horáková, Jan Robovsky, et al. (2021). The Rufous Sengi is not Elephantulus - Multilocus reconstruction of evolutionary history of sengis from the subfamily Macroscelidinae. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Vol. 59, No. 4.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.
