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--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura suaveolens
| Author: | Pallas, 1811. | | Citation: | Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1: 133. | | Common Name: | Lesser White-toothed Shrew | | Type Locality: | Russia, Crimea, Khersones, near Sevastopol. | | Distribution: | Palearctic from Spain to Siberia; Atlantic isls (Scilly, Jersey, Sark, Ushant, Yeu, and others; see Cosson et al., 1996); many Mediterranean isls including Corsica, Crete, Cyprus, and Menorca. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as C. suaveolens and C. gueldenstaedtii. | | Comments: | A widespread and variable species which has often been confused with russula; the taxonomic status of many E Asian forms has recently been discussed; see also under rapax and shantungensis. The European, Arabian, and Asian ranges were reviewed by Vlasák and Niethammer (1990), Harrison and Bates (1991), and Jiang and Hoffmann (2001), respectively. The name gueldenstaedtii has produced much confusion. Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966) listed it as a subspecies of russula and were followed by Corbet (1978c), among others. Richter (1970) applied gueldenstaedtii even to Mediterranean populations of suaveolens and was followed in that action by Kahmann and Vesmanis (1976). Hutterer (1981d) suggested that all these populations represent suaveolens; this was supported by karyological (2n = 40, FN = 50) and biochemical data (Catzeflis et al., 1985). Despite convincing evidence, some Russian authors (e.g., Graphodatsky et al., 1988) still claim the existence of gueldenstaedtii as a species in the Caucasus. Bannikova et al. (2001a) however found no genetic differences between populations from N and S Caucasus. Vogel et al. (2003) compared the mtDNA of specimens from Georgia (type locality of gueldenstaedtii) with specimens from Greece and Italy (suaveolens) and found no big difference. A specimen from Spain was more distant than samples from Europe and Georgia. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
antipae Matschie, 1901
aralychensis Satunin, 1914
ariadne Pieper, 1979
astrabadensis Goodwin, 1940
balcanica Ondrias, 1970
balearica Miller, 1907
bogdanowii Tichomirov and Kortchagin, 1889
bruecheri Lehmann, 1977
caneae Miller, 1909
cantabra Cabrera, 1908
cassiteridum Hinton, 1924
corsicana Heim de Balsac and Reynaud, 1940
cypria Bate, 1904
cyrnensis Miller, 1907
debeauxi Dal Piaz, 1925
dinnicki Ognev, 1922
enezsizunensis Heim de Balsac and Beaufort, 1966
fumigatus di Filippi, 1863
gueldenstaedtii (Pallas, 1811)
iculisma Mottaz, 1908
italica Cavazza, 1912
longicaudata Tichomirov and Kortchagin, 1889
mimula Miller, 1901
mimuloides Cavazza, 1912
minor de Sélys Longchamps, 1839
minuta Lydekker, 1902
monacha Thomas, 1906
oyaensis Heim de Balsac, 1940
pamirensis Ognev, 1928
praecypria Reumer and Oberli, 1988
sarda Cavazza, 1912
tristami (Bodenheimer, 1935)
uxantisi Heim de Balsac, 1951
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