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 Crocidura elgonius Osgood, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:369 . TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya , Mt. Elgon, Kirui . DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Elgon (W Kenya ); NE Tanzania . COMMENTS: Regarded as a distinct species by Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977) and Hutterer (1983b) .