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 macarthuri St. Leger, 1934 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 13:559 . TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya , Tana River , Meritano ( 32 km from mouth of Tana River ) . DISTRIBUTION: Savanna plains of Kenya and Somalia . COMMENTS: The species has been recorded from Somalia as smithii (e.g., Heim de Balsac, 1966a ); see Hutterer (1986a) .