Crocidura muricauda Miller 1900

Crocidura muricauda Miller 1900, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2: 645.

Type Locality: Liberia, Mount Coffee.

Vernacular Names: West African Long-tailed Shrew.

Distribution: West African high forest from Guinea to Ghana.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Often included in dolichura as a subspecies but constantly differs in its hairy tail while dolichura never shows any pilosity of the tail. Genetically not even closely related to dolichura (Querouil et al., In Press).