Crocidura macowi Dollman, 1915

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 89

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scientific name	Crocidura macowi Dollman, 1915
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Crocidura macowi Dollman, 1915 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16:378.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, "Mt. Nyiro, S. of Lake Rudolf [Lake Turkana]" .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Regarded as a synonym of hildegardeae by Osgood (1936), but retained as a species by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977), who noticed similarities to niobe .

Heim de Balsac, H., and J. Meester. 1977. Order Insectivora. Part 1. Pp. 1 - 29, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Osgood, W. H. 1936. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 217 - 256.