Some 4 genera and 17 species are found in southern Africa at present.
These are:
Myosorex Forest Shrews
4 spp (features: colour, tail length, size, palates)
Sunchus Dwarf Shrews
3 spp (features: measurements - CI and toothrow)
Crocidura Musk Shrews
9 spp (CI and colour) - these overlap in ranges - up to 4 in some areas - and need microscopic work to sort out some species
Sylvisorex Climbing Shrews = within Sunchus on iNaturalist.
1 sp Zim-Moz
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Please help with identifications
Identifications needed: (family level IDs - need to be identified to genus)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any&project_id=shrews-of-southern-africa&lrank=subtribe
Identification to species needed:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=shrews-of-southern-africa
These are almost certainly incorrect:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual%2Cresearch&project_id=shrews-of-southern-africa&taxon_id=46341&without_taxon_id=46511%2C46557%2C46788&hrank=genus
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