Crocidura crenata Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac, 1965

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 83

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scientific name	Crocidura crenata Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac, 1965
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Crocidura crenata Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac, 1965 . Mammalia, 29:268.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon, Belinga .

DISTRIBUTION: High forest in S Cameroon, N Gabon, and E Zaire.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: The specific epithet obviously was choosen because the species has extremily long feet and tail; Brosset (1988) showed that they aid in jumping rather than climbing.