Sylvisorex johnstoni (Dobson, 1888) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887:577 [1888].

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Rio del Rey .

DISTRIBUTION: Lowland forest of the Zaire Basin, SW Cameroon, Gabon, Bioko, Congo Republic, Zaire, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi.

SYNONYMS: dieterleni.

COMMENTS: Species reviewed by Hutterer (1986b); recently found in the Congo Republic (Dowsett and Granjon, 1991) and Burundi (Kerbis, pers. comm.).