Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Sylvisorex megalura (Jentink, 1888) . Notes Leyden Mus ., 10:48 . TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia , Junk River, Schieffelinsville . DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forest zone of Africa from Upper Guinea to Ethiopia and south to Mozambique and Zimbabwe . SYNONYMS: angolensis, gemmeus, infuscus, irene, phaeopus, sheppardi, sorella , sorelloides (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977:7-8 ). COMMENTS: S. megalua is the most common species of the genus, and enters forested savannas; range mapped by Hutterer et al. (1987b) . Gureev (1979:381) listed sorella as a distinct species without comment. Some geographic variation exists, the Central African forest populations being smallest and darkest.