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Corbet's Forest Shrew
Sylvisorex corbeti
The Corbet's forest shrew (Sylvisorex corbeti) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is known from a single specimen found in the Mambilla Plateau in Nigeria; its range likely extends into neighboring Cameroon. The specimen was found in a forest swamp, at an elevation of 1,900 metres (6,200 ft).
From the article Corbet's forest shrew on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
S. corbeti is the largest species in the genus Sylvisorex. The head and body of the holotype specimen, an adult female, is 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, with a 64 millimetres (2.5 in) tail. It weighs 30 grams (1.1 oz). It has dark brown fur, with round ears and unusually long hind feet. Hutterer and Montermann described it as having "a unique combination of characters of a terrestrial forest shrew (large body, tail of medium length, ear conch of moderate size) with those of scansorial shrews (elongated limbs)."
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 607159.