Taita shrew[1]
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Soricidae
Genus:	Suncus
Species:	S. aequatorius
Binomial name
Suncus aequatorius (Heller, 1912)
Habitat of the Taita Shrew in Kenya.

TheTaita shrew (Suncus aequatorius) is an extantspecies ofwhite-toothed shrew from two localities in theTaita Hills mountain range in theTaita-Taveta District of southwesternKenya.^[2] Given the continuing decline in the quality of thishabitat, and the limitations in its range, theIUCN recognises the shrew as anendangered species.^[2]

• Aggundey, I. R. and Schlitter, D. A. (1986). Annotated checklist of the mammals of Kenya. II. Insectivora and Macroscelidea.Annals of Carnegie Museum 55: 325-347.
• Heim de Balsac, H. and Meester, J. (1977). Order Insectivora. In: J. Meester and H. W. Setzer (eds),The Mammals of Africa: An Identification Manual, pp. 1–29. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., USA.
• Oguge, N., Hutterer, R. Odhiambo, R. and Verheyen, W. (2004). Diversity and structure of shrew communities in montane forests of southeast Kenya.Mammalian Biology 69: 289-301.

• IUCN Red List endangered species
• Suncus
• Endemic fauna of Kenya
• Mammals of Kenya
• Mammals described in 1912
• Taxa named by Edmund Heller

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