Crocidura greenwoodi Heim de Balsac 1966

Crocidura greenwoodi Heim de Balsac 1966, Monitore Zool. Ital., 74 (suppl.): 215.

Type Locality: Somalia, "Gelib".

Vernacular Names: Greenwood's Shrew.

Distribution: S Somalia.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Species confined to the Horn of Africa; apparently related to fulvastra and hirta, with which greenwoodi shares the same karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 66) (Schlitter et al., 1999).