- kingdomAnimalia
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- ›classMammalia
- ›orderMacroscelidea
- ›familyMacroscelididae
- ›genusElephantulus
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Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew
Elephantulus myurus Thomas & Schwann, 1906
Also calledKlip Klaasneus (afr) · Klippen-Rüsselspringer (deu) · Musaranya elefant del Transvaal (cat) · Oostelijke Rotssengi (nld) · Ostliche Elefantenspitzmaus (deu) · Sengi del Oriente de África Austral (spa) · Sengi du Limpopo (fra) · bércoun jihoafrický (ces) · idänkalliokuonokas (fin) · mmanthuwe (tsn) · ryjoskoczek zuluski (pol) · Östliche Elefantenspitzmaus (deu) · Östliche Klippen-Elefantenspitzmaus (deu) · Østklippesengi (nob)
First described in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1906 p.586
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Corbet (1974: 6) and Meester et al. (1986: 314) did not recognize any subspecies.
Order Macroscelidea
distribution
Distribution: Zimbabwe; E Botswana; N, C and E South Africa; Lesotho; W Mozambique.
Order Macroscelidea
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Zimbabwe, E Botswana, E and N South Africa, Mozambique.
Order Macroscelidea
activity
Activity patterns. Eastern Rock Sengis are fully terrestrial. At the Weenen Game Reserve, South Africa, individuals are active at all hours (polycyclic) but are most active and furthest from their home range center for periods of about five hours beginning at dusk and at dawn. Periods of least activity are overnight and during the afternoon.
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 myurus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2440855.