Crocidura nigrofusca Matschie, 1895

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 91

Crocidura nigrofusca Matschie, 1895 . Säugethiere Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas, p. 33.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Semliki Valley, "Wukalala, Kinyawanga im Westen des Semliki" .

DISTRIBUTION: S Ethiopia and Sudan through E Africa to Zambia and Angola, Zaire, perhaps Cameroon.

SYNONYMS: ansorgei, cabrerai, kempi, lakiundae, luluae, nilotica, nyikae, provocax, soricoides (?), zaodon, zena (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977).

COMMENTS: Includes luluae Matschie, 1926 (Luluabourg, Zaire) and zaodon Osgood, 1910 (Nairobi, Kenya) which were listed as separate species by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977) and Dippenaar and Meester (1989); see Hutterer et al. (1987b). The holotypes of nigrofusca , luluae and zaodon have been studied. Gureev (1979) listed ansorgei, nilotica, and zena as distinct species without comment.