Crocidura wimmeri Heim de Balsac and Aellen 1958

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 : 254

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scientific name	Crocidura wimmeri Heim de Balsac and Aellen 1958
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Crocidura wimmeri Heim de Balsac and Aellen 1958 , Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 952.

Type Locality: Côte d’Ivoire, Adiopodoume.

Vernacular Names: Wimmer's Shrew.

Distribution: S Côte d’Ivoire.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Has been assigned to nimbae ; but see Hutterer (1983 a). Records outside Côte d’Ivoire are based on misidentifcations; specimen recorded from Cameroon and Gabon refer to batesi ; see Brosset (1988). Karyotype has 2n = 50, FN = 84 ( Meylan and Vogel, 1982).