Crocidura voi Osgood 1910

Crocidura voi Osgood 1910, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 18.

Type Locality: Kenya, "Voi, British East Africa ".

Vernacular Names: Voi Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura aridula Thomas and Hinton 1923; Crocidura butleri Thomas 1911; Crocidura percivali Dollman 1915 .

Distribution: Sudan savanna from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia and Sudan; single records from Nigeria and Mali.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Included in subgenus Afrosorex by Hutterer (1986 a). New material from Kenya suggest a strong relation, if not conspecificy, with C. fischeri (Oguge and Hutterer, in prep.). For synonyms see Hutterer (1986a).