Crocidura russula (Hermann, 1780)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 58-106 : 81-82

Crocidura russula (Hermann, 1780) . In Zimmermann, Geogr. Gesch., 2:382.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Bas Rhin, near Strasbourg .

DISTRIBUTION: S. and C. Europe; Morocco to Tunisia; large isls. of Mediterranean; Atlantic isls. off France; Israel to Asia Minor; N. Iraq; Kashmir; Pamirs; S. China; Hainan Isl.(SW); Taiwan.

COMMENT: Includes caudata and sicula; see Corbet, 1978:28, but Corbet and Hill, 1980:30, listed sicula as a distinct species without comment; RGVG agrees. Also includes hosletti, pamirensis, pullata, rapax, and vorax (see Ellerman and MorrisonScott, 1966:81; Jameson and Jones, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 90:459-482), and foucauldi (see Vesmanis and Vesmanis, 1979, Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 36(2):32). Heim de Balsac, 1968, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 19: 181-188, and Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:15, considered foucauldi a distinct species. Gureev, 1979:396, 403, listed caudata, pamirensis, rapax, and vorax as distinct species, but listed foucauldi as a subspecies of russula . Gromov and Baranova, 1981:25, listed pamirensis as a distinct species. See also comments under cypria and dsinezumi. Reviewed by Richter, 1970, Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 31(17):293-304.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007005117001 as C. russula .

5301403007005025001 as C. caudata.