Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834

Crocidura viaria I. Geoffroy 1834, in: Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes-Orient.: 127.

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

Vernacular Names: Savanna Path Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura bolivari Morales Agacino 1934; Crocidura hindei Thomas 1904; Crocidura suahelae Heller 1912; Crocidura tamrinensis Vesmanis and Vesmanis 1980 .

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

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Hutterer (1984); Possibly includes suahelae, which may alternatively belong to zaphiri . A member of the flavescens species group (Maddalena, 1990), as shown by the karyotype (2n = 50, FN = 66; Maddalena and Ruedi, 1994). Isolated Maroccan population reviewed by Vogel et al. (2000).