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SPECIES Crocidura fischeri

Author:Pagenstecher, 1885.
Citation:Jb. Hamburger Wiss. Anst., 2: 34.
Common Name:Fischer's Shrew
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 Schlitter (1986).
Distribution:Nguruman (Kenya), and Himo (Tanzania).
Status:IUCN – Vulnerable.
Comments:Type species of subgenus Afrosorex. Revised by Hutterer (1986a).
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