Crocidura fischeri Pagenstecher, 1885 . Jb. Hamburger Wiss. Anst., 2:34.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Nguruman"; northwest of Lake Natron, close to Mt. Sambo, Kenya (near border to Tanzania); see discussion by Moreau et al. (1946) and Aggundey and Schütter (1986) .

DISTRIBUTION: Nguruman (Kenya), and Himo (Tanzania).

COMMENTS: Type species of subgenus Afrosorex . Revised by Hutterer (1986a).