Genera:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=46511,46557,46788#6/-26.264/26.576
Myosorex Forest Shrews
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=46799,46793,46798,46790#6/-26.713/26.267
Sunchus Dwarf Shrews
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=1370725,46521,46519#6/-26.942/27.117
Crocidura Musk Shrews
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=46612,46592,46625,46777,46772,46621,46585,46705,46668#6/-26.014/25.827
Sylvisorex Climbing Shrews
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=1370724#6/-26.244/26.984
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)
- tails lack long bristles
- teeth have extra tiny premolar (I3/2 C1/2 P2/1 M3/3 = 32
Sunchus Dwarf Shrews
3 spp (features: measurements - CI and toothrow)
- very small (<70 mm HT)
- tail with long hairs sparse among short bristles
- associated with termitaria
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
- 4th upper unicuspid absent
Sylvisorex Climbing Shrews = within Sunchus on iNaturalist.
1 sp Zim-Moz
- no long hairs on tail
- tail long (as long as body)
- primitive teeth features (P3 and I)