Myosorex babaulti Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956

Myosorex babaulti Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956, Mammalia, 20: 150.

Type Locality: Dem. Rep. Congo, Kivu.

Vernacular Names: Babault's Mouse Shrew.

Distribution: Mountains west and east of Lake Kivu, including Idjwi Isl (Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Formerly included in blarina; but see Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979). The species does not co-occur with blarina in the Bwindi Impenetrable NP, Uganda, as suggested by Kasangaki et al. (2003) (Kerbis Peterhans, pers. comm., 2004).