The Aberdare mole shrew (''Surdisorex norae'') 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 endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the
Aberdare Mountains
The Aberdare Range (formerly the Sattima Range, Kikuyu: ''Nyandarua'') is a 160 km (100 mile) long mountain range of upland, north of Kenya's capital Nairobi with an average elevation of . It straddles across the counties of Nyandarua, Nye ...
in
Kenya
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. Its natural habitat is tropical high-elevation bamboo and grassland.
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References
Surdisorex
Mammals of Kenya
Endemic fauna of Kenya
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Mammals described in 1906
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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