Crocidura miya Phillips, 1929

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 90

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Crocidura miya Phillips, 1929 . Spolia Zeylan., 15:113.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka, Kandyan Hills, Nilambe Dist., Moolgama, 3,000 ft. [914 m].

DISTRIBUTION: Highlands of C Sri Lanka.

COMMENTS: A very distinctive species, resembling C. elongata of Sulawesi, or C. dolichura of Africa. Known by a handful of specimens; see Phillips (1980) for further information.