Crocidura lamottei Heim de Balsac 1968

Crocidura lamottei Heim de Balsac 1968, Mammalia, 32: 386.

Type Locality: Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto (savane).

Vernacular Names: Lamotte's Shrew.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Crocidura lamottei subsp. lamottei Heim de Balsac 1968

Subspecies Crocidura lamottei subsp. elegans Hutterer 1986

Distribution: Sudan and Guinea savanna from Senegal to W Cameroon.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes elegans as a subspecies; see Hutterer (1986 a). Karyotype has 2n = 52, FN = 68 (Meylan, 1971).