Crocidura montis Thomas, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, 18:138.

TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda, "Ruwenzori East, 12 500'" = Bujongolo, Mubuku Valley, eastern slope of Mt. Ruwenzori .

DISTRIBUTION: Montane forest in C and E Africa; Mt. Ruwenzori (Uganda); Mt. Meru (Tanzania), Imatong Mtns (Sudan); presumably also in Kenya.

COMMENTS: Formerly a subspecies of fumosa but see Demeter and Hutterer (1986) and Dippenaar and Meester (1989), who revised the species.