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 Micropotamogale ruwenzorii (de Witte and Frechkop, 1955) . Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg., 31(84):1 . TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire , W slopes of Mt. Ruwenzori . DISTRIBUTION: Ruwenzori region ( Uganda , Zaire ), and W of Lake Edward and Lake Kivu ( Zaire ). STATUS: IUCN - Indeterminate. COMMENTS: Heim de Balsac (1956) proposed for this species a new genus, Mesopotamogale , which is currently regarded as a subgenus; see Corbet (1974) .