The volcano shrew (''Sylvisorex vulcanorum'') is a species of
mammal in the family
Soricidae found in the high-altitude rainforest of
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Gr ...
, eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
,
Rwanda, and
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...
. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist
montane forest
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucia ...
s and swamps.
Its
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
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is at Karisoke in Rwanda.
[Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.). 2005.]
''Sylvisorex vulcanorum''
''Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference'' (3rd ed). Johns Hopkins University Press
References
Sylvisorex
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Mammals described in 1985
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