Crocidura monax Thomas 1910

Crocidura monax Thomas, 1910. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:310. TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Rombo, 6,000 ft. (1,828 m). DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests in W Kenya and N Tanzania. STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. COMMENTS: Part of the the littoralis group; see Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979). Does not includes oritis (part of littoralis) and ultima (treated as full species here) as suggested by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977).Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735308