Congo shrew

Congo shrews
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Subfamily: Myosoricinae
Genus: Congosorex
Heim de Balsac and Lamotte, 1956
Type species
Myosorex polli
Species

Congosorex phillipsorum
Congosorex polli
Congosorex verheyeni

The Congo shrews, members of the genus Congosorex, are mammals in the family Soricidae.[1] The genus contains these species:

  • Phillips's Congo shrew, C. phillipsorum
  • Greater Congo shrew, C. polli
  • Lesser Congo shrew, C. verheyeni

References

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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