Crocidura luna Dollman 1910

Crocidura luna Dollman 1910, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 175.

Type Locality: Dem. Rep. Congo, "Bunkeya River, Shaba Province".

Vernacular Names: Moonshine Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura electa Dollmann 1910; Crocidura garambae Heim de Balsac and Verschuren 1968; Crocidura inyangai Lundholm 1955; Crocidura johnstoni Dollmann 1915; Crocidura schistacea Osgood 1910; Crocidura umbrosa Dollman 1915 .

Distribution: Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, E Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: A uniform group of bluish-gray shrews that exhibit a considerable geographic size variation; probably a composite group. Revised by Dippenaar and Meester (1989). Does not include macmillani, raineyi, and selina . In a biochemical comparison, specimens from Rwanda grouped outside all other African Crocidura studied (Maddalena, 1990).