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 allex Osgood, 1910 . Field Mus . Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 10(3):20 . TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya , "Naivasha, British East Africa " . DISTRIBUTION: Higlands of SW Kenya ; Mt. Kilimanjaro , Meru and Ngorogoro, N Tanzania . SYNONYMS: alpina, zinki (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977 ). COMMENTS: Gureev (1979) listed alpina as a distinct species without comment.