Neomys fodiens (Pennant 1771)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 279

Neomys fodiens (Pennant 1771)

[Sorex] fodiens Pennant 1771 , Synopsis Quadrupeds: 308.

Type Locality: Germany, Berlin.

Vernacular Names: Eurasian Water Shrew.

Synonyms: Neomys albiventris (de Sélys Longchamps 1839) ; Neomys albus (Bechstein 1800) ; Neomys alpestris Burg 1924 ; Neomys aquaticus (Müller 1776) ; Neomys argenteus Ognev 1922 ; Neomys bicolor (Shaw 1791) ; Neomys brachyotus Ognev 1922 ; Neomys canicularius (Bechstein 1800) ; Neomys carinatus (Hermann 1780) ; Neomys ciliatus (Sowerby 1805) ; Neomys collaris (Desmarest 1818) ; Neomys dagestanicus Heptner and Formozov 1928 ; Neomys daubentonii ( Erxleben 1777) ; Neomys eremita (Meyer 1793) ; Neomys fimbriatus (Fitzinger 1868) ; Neomys fluviatilis (Bechstein 1793) ; Neomys griseogularis (Fitzinger 1868) ; Neomys hermanni (Duvernoy 1835) ; Neomys hydrophilus ( Pallas 1811) ; Neomys ignotus Fatio 1905 ; Neomys intermedius (Cornalia 1870) ; Neomys intermedius Brunner 1952 ; Neomys leucotis (de Sélys Longchamps 1839) ; Neomys limchunhunii Won 1954 ; Neomys lineatus (E. Geoffroy 1811) ; Neomys linneana (Gray 1838) ; Neomys liricaudatus ( Kerr 1792) ; Neomys longobarda (Sordelli 1899) ; Neomys macrourus (Lehmann 1822) ; Neomys minor Miller 1901 ; Neomys musculus (Wagler 1832) ; Neomys naias Barrett-Hamilton 1905 ; Neomys nanus Lydekker 1906 ; Neomys natans (Brehm 1826) ; Neomys niethammeri Bühler 1963 ; Neomys nigricans (Nilsson 1845) ; Neomys nigripes (Melchior 1834) ; Neomys orientalis Hinton 1915 ; Neomys orientis Thomas 1914 ; Neomys pennantii (Gray 1838) ; Neomys psilurus (Wagler 1832) ; Neomys remifer (E. Geoffroy 1811) ; Neomys rivalis (Brehm 1830) ; Neomys sowerbyi (Bonaparte 1840) ; Neomys stagnatilis (Brehm 1826) ; Neomys stresemanni Stein 1931 ; Neomys watasei Kishida 1930 ; Neomys watasei Kuroda 1941 .

Distribution: Most of Europe including the British Isls and eastwards to Lake Baikal, Yenisei River ( Russia), Tien Shan ( China), and NW Mongolia; disjunct in Sakhalin Isl and adjacent Siberia, Jilin ( China), and N Korea.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes orientis and watasei as possible subspecies ( Hoffmann, 1987; Ognev, 1928; Yudin, 1989). Many of the listed synonyms have never been properly studied and identified and a meaningful subspecific division of the species is not possible yet. Recently, Lehmann (1983) referred constrictus to Crocidura russula . The form niethammeri from NE Spain may represent a valid species (Bühler, 1996; López-Fuster et al., 1990). Neomys newtoni Hinton, 1911 is regarded as an extinct Pleistocene species; see Rzebik-Kowalska (1998). Neomys intermedius Brunner, 1952 was identified as a chronosubspecies of N. fodiens by Schaefer (1973); the name, however, is not available. Karyotypes of N. fodiens from Sweden to Mongolia were consistantly 2n = 52, FN = 98 ( Zima et al., 1998).