Crocidura viaria (I. Geoffroy, 1834) . In Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes-Orient, p. 127.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Senegal ", restricted to region between Dakar and St. Luis by Hutterer (1984) .

DISTRIBUTION: Sahelien and Sudan savanna from S Morocco to Senegal and east to Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya; perhaps further south.

SYNONYMS: bolivari, hindei, suahelae (?), tamrinensis.

COMMENTS: Revised by Hutterer (1984); Possibly includes suahelae, which may alternatively belong to zaphiri . A member of the flavescens species group (Maddalena, 1990).