Crocidura phaeura Osgood, 1936 . Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 20:228.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Sidamo, west base of Mt. Guramba, NE of Aliata .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. Has not been collected since its discovery.

COMMENTS: Considered a full species by Dippenaar and Meester (1989). Related to harenna; see discussion in Hutterer and Yalden (1990).