Crocidura mariquensis (A. Smith, 1849) . Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm., pl. 44, f. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, "Wood near the tropic of Capricorn" = W. Transvaal, Morico River, near its junction with Limpopo .

DISTRIBUTION: N.E. Namibia; South Africa; Mozambique; W. Zimbabwe; N. Botswana; Zambia; S.C. Angola; perhaps S.E. Zaire.

COMMENT: Includes neavei, pilosa and sylvia; see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:19. Gureev, 1979:411, 415, listed these forms as distinct species without comment. Reviewed by Dippenaar, 1979, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32:1 -34.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007005077001 as C. mariquensis .

5301403007005110001 as C. pilosa.