Short-snouted Elephant Shrew

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)
Short-snouted Elephant Shrew range

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]

References

  1. ^ Schlitter, Duane A. (16 November 2005). "Order Macroscelidea (pp. 82–85)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11200004. 
  2. ^ a b Stuart, C., Perrin, M., FitzGibbon, C., Griffin, M. & Smit, H. (2008). Elephantulus brachyrhynchus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.