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

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Meshra-el-Req .

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

SYNONYMS: bicolor, cuninghamei, hendersoni, marita, sansibarica, tephragaster, woosnami.

COMMENTS: Revised by Hutterer (1983b). C. planiceps may belong here but relationships are yet unsolved. See comments under C. pasha .