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 hildegardeae Thomas, 1904 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:240 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Fort Hall, Kenya Colony." DISTRIBUTION: Localized in West Africa ( Nigeria , Cameroon ), common in C and E Africa; forest. SYNONYMS: altae, holobrunneus, ibeana, lutreola, maanjae, phaios, procera, rubecula, virgata (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977 ). COMMENTS: Does not include gracilipes ; see Dieterlen and Heim de Balsac (1979) and Demeter and Hutterer (1986) . Gureev (1979) listed ibeana, lutreola, and maanjae as distinct species without comment. Species group in need of revision.