Crocidura lusitania Dollman, 1915 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15:516.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mauritania, " Trarza country" .

DISTRIBUTION: Sahelian zone from S Morocco to Senegal, Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia; a Saharan record from Mali.

COMMENTS: For a summary of distributional records, see Hutterer (1986a) and Sidiyene (1989).