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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Crocidurinae
--> GENUS Crocidura
SPECIES Crocidura rapax
| Author: | G. Allen, 1923. | | Citation: | Amer. Mus. Novit., 100: 9. | | Common Name: | Chinese White-toothed Shrew | | Type Locality: | China, Yunnan, Mekong River, Yinpankai. | | Distribution: | S China and adjacent countries (Jiang and Hoffmann, 2001), NE India (specimens in FMNH). | | Comments: | Formerly included in russula or pullata, but see Jiang and Hoffmann (2001). Fang et al. (1997) retained kurodai as a separate species, but did not study rapax. Fang and Lee (2002) demonstrated that allopatric populations from Taiwan (kurodai), Orchid Isl (tadae) and Green Isl (lutaoensis) share the same karyotype (2n = 40, FN = 54 or 64), but differ in size and morphology and should therefore be considered as valid subspecies. |
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