Congosorex Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

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 : 264

Congosorex Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

Congosorex Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956 , Mammalia, 20: 167.

Type Species: Myosorex polli Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Congosorex polli Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

Species Congosorex verheyeni Hutterer, Barriere and Colyn 2002

Discussion: Described as a subgenus of Myosorex by Heim de Balsac and Lamotte (1956), but differs in its tooth formula and was therefore treated as a full genus by Heim de Balsac (1967), Hutterer (1993 a), and Hutterer et al. (2002 b). Genetically, Congosorex is the sister taxon of Myosorex (Querouil et al., 2001) . Reviewed by Hutterer et al. (2002 b).