Crocidura tarfayensis Vesmanis and Vesmanis, 1980 . Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 36:47.

TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco, Agadir Prov., 8 km south Tarfaya, 27°50'N, 12°30'W .

DISTRIBUTION: Atlantic coast of Sahara; south of Agadir (Morocco) through Western Sahara into Mauritania.

SYNONYMS: agadiri, gouliminensis, tiznitensis (see Hutterer, 1987).

COMMENTS: Recorded as whitakeri from Western Sahara by Heim de Balsac (1968e).