Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:74.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India; Kashmir; Nepal; Sikkim; Java; Sulawesi and surrounding islands; Guam; Japan; S. China; Taiwan; Israel; Egypt to Tanzania; Arabia; Sinai; Iraq; Madagascar; Zanzibar; Comoro Isis.

COMMENT: Includes albicauda, auriculata, crassicaudus, duvernoyi, leucura, mauritiana, sacer, and geoffroyi; see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:5. Gureev, 1979:383, listed leucura as a distinct species without comment. Much of the present distribution is the result of human agency (K. F. Koopman).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007020009001 as S. murinus .

5301403007005003001 as Crocidura albicauda .

5301403007005044001 as Crocidura geoffroyi .

5301403007020005001 as S. leucura'