Crocidura yankariensis Hutterer and Jenkins, 1980 . Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 39:305.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Bauchi State, 16 km E of Yankari Game Reserve boundary, Futuk [9°50'N, 10°55'E] .

DISTRIBUTION: Sudan savanna zone in Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.

COMMENTS: Previously confused with somatica; see Hutterer and Jenkins (1983).