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--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura zimmermanni
Author: | Wettstein, 1953. | Citation: | Z. SSugetierk., 17: 12. | Common Name: | Cretan Shrew | Type Locality: | Greece, Crete, Ida Mtns, Nida plateau. | Distribution: | Highlands of the island of Crete. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | A Pleistocene relict (Reumer, 1986). Formerly regarded as a subspecies of russula but differs in morphology and karyotype (2n = 34, FN = 44); see Vesmanis and Kahmann (1978), Vogel (1986), Vogel et al. (1986), and Pieper (1990). |
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