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--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura leucodon
Author: | Hermann, 1780. | Citation: | In Zimmermann, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 382. | Common Name: | Bicolored Shrew | Type Locality: | France, Bas Rhin, vicinity of Strasbourg. | Distribution: | France to the Volga and Caucasus; Elburz Mtns; Asia Minor; Israel; Lebanon; Lesbos Isl (Aegean Sea). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Reviewed by Richter (1970) and Gureev (1979). Includes persica; see Dolgov (1979). Gureev (1979) and Gromov and Baranova (1981) listed persica as a distinct species without comment. Includes lasia; see Catzeflis et al. (1985), Gureev (1979), and Jenkins (1976); but see also Corbet (1978c). Does not include caspica from Iran, but judaica from Palestine. European range reviewed by Krapp (1990), Arabian range by Harrison and Bates (1991). The assignment of hydruntina follows Nappi and Maio (2000). Karyotype has 2n = 28, FN = 56 (Zima et al., 1998). |
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albipes (Kerr, 1792) avicennai Stroganov, 1960 hydruntina Costa, 1844 judaica Thomas, 1919 lasia Thomas, 1906 leucodus Schulze, 1897 microurus (Fatio, 1869) narentae Bolkay, 1925 persica Thomas, 1907 volgensis Stroganov, 1960
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