Crocidura floweri Dollman, 1915 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15:515.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Giza, Egypt."

DISTRIBUTION: Environs of Upper Nile valley and Wadi el Natrun, Egypt.

COMMENTS: Mummified shrews from Ancient Egypt have been identified as C. floweri; see Heim de Balsac and Mein (1971). Possibly related to crossei and arabica; see Hutterer and Harrison (1988).