| Hildegarde's shrew | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Crocidura |
| Species: | C. hildegardeae
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| Binomial name | |
| Crocidura hildegardeae Thomas, 1904
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| Hildegarde's shrew range | |
Hildegarde's shrew (Crocidura hildegardeae) is a recently discovered shrew, described in 1904. Considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of the Peters's musk shrew, it is now recognised as a separate species, with a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 52.[2]
This is one of three species of small mammals named by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas in honour of anthropologist Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde.[3]
- ^ Hutterer, R. & Jenkins, P. (2016). "Crocidura hildegardeae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2019. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of Least Concern.
- ^ Kingdon, Jonathan; Happold, David; Butynski, Thomas; Hoffmann, Michael; Happold, Meredith; Kalina, Jan (2013). Mammals of Africa. A&C Black. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-1-4081-8996-2.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3.