Crocidura mariquensis (A. Smith, 1844)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 89

Crocidura mariquensis (A. Smith, 1844) . Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm., pl. 44, fig. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, "A wooded ravine near the tropic of Capricorn" = Marico River, near its junction with Limpopo .

DISTRIBUTION: Swamps and forest from South Africa to Mozambique, W Zimbabwe, and Zambia; NW Botswana and NE Namibia to SC Angola; perhaps SE Zaire.

SYNONYMS: neavei, pilosa, shortridgei, sylvia.

COMMENTS: Includes pilosa and Sylvia as synonyms and shortridgei and neavei as subspecies; see Dippenaar (1977, 1979), who reviewed the species and selected a lectotype. May also include nigricans , which Crawford-Cabral (1987) considered distinct.