Crocidura nimbae Heim de Balsac, 1956 . Mammalia, 20:131.

TYPE LOCALITY: Guinea, Mt. Nimba, "baraque de Zouguépo" .

DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Nimba (Guinea, Liberia); Sierra Leone (specimen in the National Museum of Natural History).

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: A very distinct species; not conspecific with wimmeri as previously suggested (see Hutterer, 1983a).