Crocidura allex Osgood, 1910 . Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 10(3):20.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, "Naivasha, British East Africa " .

DISTRIBUTION: Higlands of SW Kenya; Mt. Kilimanjaro, Meru and Ngorogoro, N Tanzania.

SYNONYMS: alpina, zinki (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977).

COMMENTS: Gureev (1979) listed alpina as a distinct species without comment.