Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Soricidae > Crocidura > Crocidura stenocephalaCrocidura stenocephala (narrow-headed shrew; Kahuzi Swamp Shrew)The Kahuzi swamp shrew (Crocidura stenocephala) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its natural habitat is swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.21 EDGE Score: 3.52 |
Adult Weight [1] | 17 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | Diet - Scavenger [2] | 40 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | Litter Size [1] | 3 | Nocturnal [2] | Yes |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Albertine Rift montane forests |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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