A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Author Decher, Jan Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de Author Norris, Ryan W. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com ryanwnorris@gmail.com Author Abedi-Lartey, Michael Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia) Author Oppong, James Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana) Author Hutterer, Rainer Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Weinbrenner, Martin Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany) Author Koch, Martin Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany) Author Podsiadlowski, Lars Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Kilpatrick, C. William Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu wkilpatr@uvm.edu text Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 journal article 6523 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14 b1eb9973-f581-4a60-9c87-68b7ae4b3591 1638-9387 4783781 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7008A933-FE5E-405E-BBAD-8C06D2A8807D Crocidura cf. eburnea Heim de Balsac, 1958 Crocidura ( bottegi ) eburnea Heim de Balsac, 1958: 327 . COMMON NAME. — Ivory Coast White-toothed Shrew. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi • 1 ♀ ; pitfall ; 27.XI.1999 ; ZFMK 1999.1144 . REMARK Initially identified as Crocidura cf. douceti Heim de Balsac, 1958 , this tiny shrew has been re-assigned to Crocidura eburnea , which has only recently been elevated from a synonym of C. obscurior ( Hutterer 2005 ) to species level ( Jacquet et al. 2014 ). This is the first record of C. cf. eburnea from the Volta Region and since the Volta River is considered the eastern boundary of the C. obscurior complex ( Jacquet et al. 2014 ), this possible range extension awaits further study. FIG. 3. — Fox’s White-toothed Shrew Crocidura cf. foxi Dollman, 1915 from Apesokubi. Photo: M. Weinbrenner 1999. CONSERVATION STATUS. — Crocidura eburnea was included in the IUCN Red List in 2019 and assessed as “Least Concern”.