Crocidura floweri Dollman 1915

Crocidura floweri Dollman 1915, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15: 515.

Type Locality: " Giza, Egypt." .

Vernacular Names: Flower's Shrew.

Distribution: Environs of Upper Nile valley and Wadi el Natrun, Egypt (Goodman, 1989).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Mummified shrews from Ancient Egypt have been identified as C. floweri; see Heim de Balsac and Mein (1971). Possibly related to crossei and arabica; see Hutterer and Harrison (1988).