- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderMacroscelidea
- ›familyMacroscelididae
- ›genusElephantulus
Dusky Elephant Shrew
Elephantulus fuscus (Peters, 1852)
Also calledDunkle Elefantenspitzmaus (deu) · Musaranya elefant del Zambesi (cat) · Sengi Oscuro (spa) · Sengi foncé (fra) · Zambesielefantspissmus (nob) · Zambesisengi (nob) · bércoun hnědý (ces) · ryjoskoczek ciemny (pol) · tummakuonokas (fin) · Ελεφαντομέγαιρο του Ζαμπέσι (ell) · Замбезийский прыгунчик (rus) · クロハネジネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Reise nach Mossambique, Säugethiere p.87
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
COMMENT: Formerly included in brachyrhynchus; see Corbet, 1974, Part 1.5: 5.
Order Macroscelidea
biology_ecology
Habitat. Grasslands with compact sandy substrates and scattered trees and bushes.
Macroscelididae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Macroscelididae
conservation
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Population trend of the Dusky Sengi is unknown. A specimen sighting was most recently published in 2005, but all collected voucher specimens predate 1968. About twenty localities of occurrence were recorded in southern Malawi and central Mozambique in ¢. 115,000 km?. If these data were current and distribution was not severely fragmented, size of this area could justify a classification of Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. However, distribution overlaps some areas that are densely populated by humans, so extent of suitable habitat could be much smaller than generalized polygons suggest from old records.
Macroscelididae
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 Elephantulus fuscus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2440846.