Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew
- Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew
Taxobox
name = Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew
image_width = 240px
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Macroscelidea
familia = Macroscelididae
genus = "Rhynchocyon"
species = "R. petersi"
binomial = "Rhynchocyon petersi"
binomial_authority = Bocage, 1880The Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew ("Rhynchocyon petersi"), also known as the Black and Rufous Sengi, is one of 16 species of elephant shrew alive today in Africa. As other members of the genus "Rhynchocyon", it is a relatively large species, with adults averaging c. 28 cm (11 in) in length and 450-700 g (1-1.5 lb) in weight. It is endemic to Kenya and Tanzania.Two Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew brothers were born on February 4th 2007 at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. They now reside, for the time being, at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT as part of the Tree of Life Exhibit. [http://www.peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/treeoflife/shrews.html]
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ee also
*Elephant Shrew
*Fauna of Africa
*Rhynchocyon
References
*http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/SmallMammals/fact-elephantshrew.cfm
*http://www.naturalsciences.be/institute/associations/rbzs_website/bjz/back/pdf/BJZ%20135(s1)/135_s1_175_177html/Volume%20135(s1),%20pp.%20175-177s.html
*http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19708/all
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