Crocidura fuliginosa (Blyth, 1855)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 85

Crocidura fuliginosa (Blyth, 1855) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, ser. 2, 24:362.

TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, Schwegyin, near Pegu .

DISTRIBUTION: N India, Burma, adjacent China, Malaysian Peninsula and adjacent isls; perhaps also Borneo, Sumatra and Java; exact distribution unknown.

SYNONYMS: baluensis, brevicauda , brunnea, doriae, dracula, foetida, grisescens, kelabit, lawuana, lepidura, macklotii, mansumensis, melanorhyncha, orientalis, praedax, pudjonica, tenuis , villosa, vosmaeri.

COMMENTS: The taxonomy of this common S Asian shrew is in urgent need of revision. Ruedi et al. (1990) recently demonstrated unrecognized sympatry of two entirely cryptic but chromosomally distinct forms, one of which has been provisionally labeled C. cf. malayana . For taxa currently included in /uliginosa see above and Jenkins (1976, 1982). Medway (1977) and Heaney and Timm (1983b) also included dracula, which Lekagul and McNeely (1977) considered a distinct species. The list of synonyms is very provisional; see also under malayana .