Crocidura artnenica Gureev, 1963 . Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R., 1:118.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Armyansk S.S. R., 14 km down river from Garni .

DISTRIBUTION: Armenia (U.S. S.R.).

COMMENT: Revised by Gureev, 1979:401, who considered artnenica distinct from pergrisea; but see Dolgov and Yudin, 1975, Trans. Biol. Inst. Novosibirsk, 23:5-40, and Corbet, 1978:29, who considered it a subspecies; Gromov and Baranova, 1981:25 listed it as a distinct species.