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Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew
Rhynchocyon petersi du Bocage, 1880

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Macroscelidea - elephant shrews »  family Macroscelididae - elephant shrews »  genus Rhynchocyon - Sengis

Other names


= Black-and-rufous Sengi
= Peters's Elephant-shrew
= Peters's Sengi
= Zanj Elephant-shrew
= Zanj Sengi

Images

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Rene Mantei

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Elias Neideck

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Elias Neideck

juvenile animal

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Rhynchocyon petersi - Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Rhynchocyon petersi adersi Dollman, 1912

Rhynchocyon petersi adersi

subspecies Rhynchocyon petersi petersi Bocage, 1880

Rhynchocyon petersi petersi


Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [19708]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Rhynchocyon petersi Bocage, 1880]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1000462]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Rhynchocyon petersi du Bocage, 1880]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Rhynchocyon petersi Bocage, 1880]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Rhynchocyon petersi Bocage, 1880]

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