Crocidura lusitania Dollman 1915

Crocidura lusitania Dollman 1915, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 516.

Type Locality: Mauritania, " Trarza country".

Vernacular Names: Mauritanian Shrew.

Distribution: Sahelian zone from S Morocco to Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia; a Saharan record from Mali.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Included in subgenus Afrosorex by Hutterer (1986 a), but a recent genetic study (Querouil et al., In Press) does not support this action. For a summary of distributional records, see Hutterer (1986 a) and Sidiyene (1989). Karyotype has 2n = 38, FN = 64 (Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994).