Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 253

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Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834 , in: Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes-Orient.: 127.

Type Locality: " Senegal ", restricted to region between Dakar and St. Luis by Hutterer (1984).

Vernacular Names: Savanna Path Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura bolivari Morales Agacino 1934 ; Crocidura hindei Thomas 1904 ; Crocidura suahelae Heller 1912 ; Crocidura tamrinensis Vesmanis and Vesmanis 1980 .

Distribution: Sahelien and Sudan savanna from S Morocco to Senegal and east to Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya; perhaps further south.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Hutterer (1984); Possibly includes suahelae , which may alternatively belong to zaphiri . A member of the flavescens species group (Maddalena, 1990), as shown by the karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 66; Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). Isolated Maroccan population reviewed by Vogel et al. (2000).