Short-snouted Elephant Shrew

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Short-snouted Elephant Shrew[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Macroscelidea
Family: Macroscelididae
Genus: Elephantulus
Species: E. brachyrhynchus
Binomial name
Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
(A. Smith, 1836)

The Short-snouted Elephant Shrew or Short-snouted Sengi (Elephantulus brachyrhynchus) is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Schlitter, Duane A. (2005-11-16). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 82. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Stuart, C., Perrin, M., FitzGibbon, C., Griffin, M. & Smit, H. (2006). Elephantulus brachyrhynchus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
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