The reddish-gray musk shrew (''Crocidura cyanea'') is a species of
mammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...
in the family
Soricidae. It is found in
Angola,
Botswana,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Eswatini
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,
Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...
,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Nigeria,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Zambia, and
Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are lowland forests, subtropical or tropical high-elevation
grassland, and caves.
References
Crocidura
Mammals described in 1838
Taxa named by Georges Louis Duvernoy
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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