Sorex olivieri Lesson, 1827: 121 A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Decher, Jan Norris, Ryan W. Abedi-Lartey, Michael Oppong, James Hutterer, Rainer Weinbrenner, Martin Koch, Martin Podsiadlowski, Lars Kilpatrick, C. William Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 ZK6R (Lesson, 1827) Lesson 1827 [952,1315,1267,1294] Mammalia Soricidae Crocidura Animalia Soricomorpha 9 260 Chordata species olivieri      Sorex olivieri Lesson, 1827: 121.  COMMON NAME. — African Giant White-toothed Shrew, Olivier’s Shrew.  MATERIAL EXAMINED. —  Apesokubi• 1 ♀; Sherman trapin forest; ZFMK 2003.1089.  Liati Wote( Tagbo Falls)• 1?; Sherman trapbetween buttress roots in forest; ZFMK 2003.1090.  REMARK This species was previously known from several localities in the Volta Region ( Grubb et al.1998). In their Kyabobo expedition report Hurst et al.(1995)mention several individuals of this large shrew (as  C. flavescens) from KRNP, but we did not encounter it there. Our specimen from Liati Wote (ZFMK 2003.1090) was included in a recent phylogeographic study of  C. olivieri( Jacquet et al.2015)and grouped with their Clade IIB with DahomeyGap specimens from Togoand Benin.  CONSERVATION STATUS. —  Crocidura olivieriis listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List. 3117087352 ZFMK Liati Wote Tagbo Falls 9 260 ZFMK 2003.1089 1 1 3117087310 ZFMK 9 260 ZFMK 2003.1090 1