Crocidura wimmeri Heim de Balsac and Aellen, 1958 . Rev. Suisse Zool., 65:952.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ivory Coast, Adiopodoume .

DISTRIBUTION: S Ivory Coast.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. Rare and very localized in distribution.

COMMENTS: Has been assigned to nimbae; but see Hutterer (1983a). Records outside Ivory Coast are based on misidentifcations; specimen recorded from Cameroon and Gabon refer to batesi; see Brosset (1988).