Crocidura monax Thomas, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:310.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Rombo, 6,000 ft. (1,828 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests in W Kenya and N Tanzania.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: Part of the the littoralis group; see Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979). Does not includes oritis (part of littoralis) and ultima (treated as full species here) as suggested by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977).