Sylvisorex megalura (Jentink, 1888)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 105

Sylvisorex megalura (Jentink, 1888) . Notes Leyden Mus., 10:48.

TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia, Junk River, Schieffelinsville .

DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forest zone of Africa from Upper Guinea to Ethiopia and south to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

SYNONYMS: angolensis, gemmeus, infuscus, irene, phaeopus, sheppardi, sorella , sorelloides (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977:7-8).

COMMENTS: S. megalua is the most common species of the genus, and enters forested savannas; range mapped by Hutterer et al. (1987b). Gureev (1979:381) listed sorella as a distinct species without comment. Some geographic variation exists, the Central African forest populations being smallest and darkest.