Crocidura hildegardeae Thomas, 1904 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:240.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Fort Hall, Kenya Colony."

DISTRIBUTION: Localized in West Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon), common in C and E Africa; forest.

SYNONYMS: altae, holobrunneus, ibeana, lutreola, maanjae, phaios, procera, rubecula, virgata (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977).

COMMENTS: Does not include gracilipes; see Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979) and Demeter and Hutterer (1986). Gureev (1979) listed ibeana, lutreola, and maanjae as distinct species without comment. Species group in need of revision.