| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | EULIPOTYPHLA | SORICIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Crocidura floweri | |||
| Species Authority: | Dollman, 1915 | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Data Deficient ver 3.1 | ||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | ||||||
| Assessor/s | Saleh, M. & Hutterer, R. | ||||||
| Evaluator/s: | Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) | ||||||
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Justification: There is insufficient information regarding distribution and population numbers available to assess C. floweri in a category other than Data Deficient. Surveys may reveal this species to be more widely distributed and common than previously thought. However, it is also possible that surveys will confirm the restricted range of this species, and it may be classifiable as CR or EN under criterion B (B2ab(ii,iii)). |
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| Range Description: |
Crocidura floweri is endemic to Egypt. It has been recorded from El Giza and the southern region of the Nile Delta, as well as records from Wadi El Natrun (a large oasis west of the Nile Delta), and from the Upper Nile Valley. C. floweri appears to have a restricted range, although M. Saleh (pers. comm.) believes that this may be due to the restricted sampling range of the commercial collectors from the village of Abu Rawash in Giza, from whom many of the specimens have originated. Saleh believes that it is not unlikely that, with a proper survey, this species will be found throughout the rest of the Nile Delta and possibly the Nile Valley, where habitats identical to those within its known area of occupancy extend uninterrupted by any obvious ecological barrier. However, collecting efforts over a period of one year in the 1990s failed to find any specimens in the Nile Valley area (R. Hutterer pers. comm. 2007). The species was reported possibly extinct in 1962, however, in the 1980s it was recorded from owl pellets. |
| Countries: |
Native:
Egypt
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| Range Map: |
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| Population: | The species apparently has a very small population, although it may not be as rare as it currently appears to be. Certainly it does not appear to be rare in the Cairo, Giza, and southern Nile Delta region (M. Saleh pers. comm.), although there do not appear to have been any population studies carried out. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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| Habitat and Ecology: | Very little is known about the habitat requirements of this shrew, although it is found in man-made habitats in the Nile Valley. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | The population may have been impacted by environmental pollution caused by the widespread use of agricultural insecticides during the 1960s and 1970s, which is known to have had a very adverse effect on the Nile Valley wildlife. It is also possible that its habitat has changed drastically since the Aswan dam was built in Nile valley - this has had a great impact on small mammal species, partly due to the increased prevalence of pest rats. However, such an effect on C. floweri is undetermined. |
| Conservation Actions: | Currently there are no conservation measures taken to protect this species in Egypt, and no part of its known distribution range is protected. More data are required on population status (densities, trends), threats, etc. |
| Citation: | Saleh, M. & Hutterer, R. 2008. Crocidura floweri. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 December 2008. |
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