Cape Elephant Shrew

Cape Elephant Shrew[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Macroscelidea
Family: Macroscelididae
Genus: Elephantulus
Species: E. edwardii
Binomial name
Elephantulus edwardii
(A. Smith, 1839)
Cape Elephant Shrew range

The Cape Elephant Shrew, Cape Rock Elephant Shrew, or Cape Sengi (Elephantulus edwardii) is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family. It is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.[2]

References

  1. ^ Schlitter, Duane A. (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 82. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ a b Stuart, C., Perrin, M., FitzGibbon, C., Griffin, M. & Smit, H. (2008). Elephantulus edwardii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.