Crocidura muricauda (Miller, 1900)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 90

Crocidura muricauda (Miller, 1900) . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2:645.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Mount Coffee, Liberia " .

DISTRIBUTION: West African high forest from Guinea to Ghana.

COMMENTS: Usually included in dolichura as a subspecies but constantly differs in its hairy tail while dolichura never shows any pilosity of the tail.