Crocidura raineyi Heller, 1912 . Smithson. Mise. Coll. 60(12):7 -8.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, "North Creek, Mt. Garguez" .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: Since its description C. raineyi has been considered a valid species, but was synonymized in 1977 with C. luna, an error recently corrected by Dippenaar and Meester (1989).