Crocidura fuscomurina Heuglin 1865

Crocidura fuscomurina Heuglin 1865, Leopoldina, 5, in: Nova. Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol., 32: 36.

Type Locality: Sudan, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Meshra-el-Req.

Vernacular Names: Bicolored Musk Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura bicolor Bocage 1889; Crocidura bovei Dobson 1887; Crocidura cuninghamei Thomas 1904; Crocidura fuscomurinus (Heuglin 1865); Crocidura glebula Dollmann 1916; Crocidura hendersoni Dollman 1915; Crocidura marita Thomas and Hinton 1923; Crocidura sansibarica Neumann 1900; Crocidura tephragaster Setzer 1956; Crocidura tephronotus Heim de Balsac 1968; Crocidura woosnami Dollman 1915 .

Distribution: Sudan and Guinea savanna from Senegal to Ethiopia, and south to South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Hutterer (1983 b). Karyotype from Burundi has 2n = 56, FN = 86 (Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). C. planiceps may belong here but relationships are yet unsolved.