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. foxi Dollman, 1915 ( Fig. 3 ) Crocidura foxi Dollman, 1915: 514 . COMMON NAME. — Fox’s White-toothed Shrew. FIG. 4. — Northern Giant Pouched Rat Cricetomys cf. gambianus Waterhouse, 1840 ♀ from Shiare (SMF 91437). Photo: M. Weinbrenner 2001. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi • 1 ♀ ; 26.XI.1999 ; ZFMK 1999.1145 • 1?; Sherman traps ; 27.XI.1999 ; ZFMK 1999.1146 . REMARK Known initially just from Nigeria C. foxi is now known to occur in the Guinea savanna zone and secondary bushland from Senegal to Sudan ( Duplantier & Granjon 2013 ). Our captures are the first from the Volta Region of Ghana , listed as Crocidura cf. foxi , as the identification has not yet been confirmed by molecular genetics. An earlier capture from KRNP, reported by Hurst et al. (1995) as C. foxii [sic], was later re-identified as C. fuscomurina (Heuglin, 1865) (Hutterer 1983; Grubb et al. 1998 ). CONSERVATION STATUS. — Crocidura foxi is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.