Crocidura gracilipes Peters, 1870 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870:584.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Auf der Reise nach dem Kilimandscharo "; unidentifiable but usually taken as " Kilimanjaro, Tanzania "; see Moreau et al. (1946:395) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type specimen with unknown origin.

COMMENTS: Does not include hildegardeae; see Demeter and Hutterer (1986:201). A recent examination of the type specimen indicated a conspecificy with C. cyanea .