Sao Tome and Principe are unique islands off the Gulf of Guinea on account of the high degree of endemism in these areas due to isolation. These islands are known to harbor, among others, two species of shrews of the genus Crocidura: C. thomensis, endemic to Sao Tome; and C. poensis, found on Principe and common in central Africa. Owing to the uncertainty surrounding the taxonomic status of the population of C. poensis from Principe Island, we conducted morphometric and molecular analyses of newly collected specimens and compared them against Sao Tome and mainland African specimens. Our results show that the shrew population from Principe Island is a separate species: Crocidura fingui sp. nov.
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Royal Museum Cent Africa, Biol Collect & Data Management Unit, B-3080 Tervuren, BelgiumRoyal Museum Cent Africa, Biol Collect & Data Management Unit, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Vandenspiegel, Didier
Shelley, Rowland M.
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Shelley, Rowland M.
Golovatch, Sergei, I
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Russian Acad Sci, Inst Problems Ecol & Evolut, Leninsky Pr 33, Moscow 119071, RussiaRoyal Museum Cent Africa, Biol Collect & Data Management Unit, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium
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Field Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USAField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Balete, Danilo S.
Rickart, Eric A.
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Univ Utah, Utah Museum Nat Hist, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 USAField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Rickart, Eric A.
Heaney, Lawrence R.
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Field Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USAField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Heaney, Lawrence R.
Aliviola, Phillip A.
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Univ Philippines Los Banos, Museum Nat Hist, College Los Banos 4031, Laguna, PhilippinesField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Aliviola, Phillip A.
Duya, Melizar V.
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Conservat Int, Quezon City 1101, PhilippinesField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Duya, Melizar V.
Duya, Mariano Roy M.
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Conservat Int, Quezon City 1101, PhilippinesField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Duya, Mariano Roy M.
Sosa, Timothy
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Field Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Univ Minnesota, Bell Museum Nat Hist, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USAField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Sosa, Timothy
Jansa, Sharon A.
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Univ Minnesota, Bell Museum Nat Hist, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USAField Museum Nat Hist, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
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Amer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Ichthyol, Div Vertebrate Zool, New York, NY 10024 USAAmer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Ichthyol, Div Vertebrate Zool, New York, NY 10024 USA
Sparks, John S.
Chakrabarty, Prosanta
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Louisiana State Univ, Museum Nat Sci, Fish Sect, Dept Biol Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USAAmer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Ichthyol, Div Vertebrate Zool, New York, NY 10024 USA