Crocidura gracilipes Peters, 1870 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 584.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania, Mt. Kilamanjaro, "auf der Reise nach dem Kilimandscharo "; somewhat uncertain .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to S. Sudan, S. Ethiopia, W. Somalia; perhaps Guinea and Guinea-Bissau; Cameroun.

COMMENT; Includes altae, hildegardeae, holobrunneus, ibeana, lutreola, maanjae, phaios, procera, rubecula, silacea and virgata; see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:16. Gureev, 1979:410-412, listed hildegardeae, ibeana, lutreola, maanjae, and silacea as distinct species without comment. Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac, 1979, Saugetierk. Mitt., 27:241-287, listed hildegardeae as a distinct species. For comment on type locality, see Moreau, et al., 1946, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1945:395.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007005048001 as C. gracilipes .

5301403007005053001 as C. hildegardeae.

5301403007005121001 as C. silacea.