Crocidura virgata Sanderson 1940

Crocidura virgata Sanderson 1940, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond., 24: 682.

Type Locality: Cameroon, Mamfe Division, Assumbo, Tinta [06°15'N, 09°31'E].

Vernacular Names: Mamfe Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura vulcani Heim de Balsac 1956 .

Distribution: Nigeria (Meylan and Vogel, 1982) and highlands of W Cameroon.

Discussion: Previously included in hildegardeae (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977), but has a different karyotype (2n = 52, FN = 86; Schlitter et al., 1999).