Suncus etruscus (Wilson and Reeder, 2005)

Shpirer, Erez, Haddas-Sasson, Michal, Spivak-Glater, Maya, Feldstein, Tamar, Meiri, Shai & Huchon, Dorothée, 2021, Molecular relationships of the Israeli shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) based on cytochrome b sequences, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 85 (1), pp. 79-89 : 87

4.4 Suncus etruscus

The Israeli S. etruscus sequences appear to be closely related to the European ones and one Iranian sequence. The differences between the Israeli sequences and those of other western clade members are very small and comparable to the distances observed within the C. suaveolens gueldenstaedtii clade. This suggests that the western clade encompasses individuals from France in the west to Iran in the east and Israel in the south. However, this species has been poorly sampled in molecular studies to date. As a case in point, only a few S. etruscus specimens have been sequenced from Iran where members of both the western and eastern clade are present ( Darvish et al. 2017; Ohdachi et al. 2016). More data are needed in order to decipher the population structure of this species.