Crocidura suaveolens (Pallas, 1811) . Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:133.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Crimea, Kherssones, near Sevastopol .

DISTRIBUTION: S.W. and C. Europe; N. Africa discontinuously to Korea, China, and Taiwan.

COMMENT: Includes dinniki, hyrcania and matruhensis; see Corbet, 1978:27. Dolgov (in litt.) includes pamirensis in this species (OLR); but also see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:81, who included it in russula . Gureev, 1979:393, 402 and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:24, 26, listed hyrcania and dinniki as distinct species without comment.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007005124001.