Crocidura Wagler, 1832

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 18

Genus Crocidura Wagler, 1832

Two species of Crocidura occur in Korea. Crocidura dsinezumi is not considered a Korean species for the following reasons. Kuroda (1934a) reported C. dsinezumi quelpartis on Jeju Island; after that, only one specimen was collected ( Won 1968). After 2001 and the description of the white-toothed shrew C. shantungensis from Jeju Island ( Iwasa et al. 2001), researchers only collected C. shantungensis on Jeju Island. Although Han et al. (2002) supported the occurrence of two species, C. dsinezumi and C. shantungensis on Jeju Island based on mtDNA identification, the type specimen of C. dsinezumi quelpartis in 1934 clustered within C. shantungensis ( Motokawa et al. 2003) . Thus, currently, only one species of Crocidura probably inhabits Jeju Island, C. shantungensis ( Jo et al. 2012) . Nevertheless, taxonomic skepticism exists on whether the population on Jeju Island warrants a subspecific level classification or specific level classification. Therefore, additional research on the Crocidura on Jeju Island might resolve the taxonomic status of the Crocidura on Jeju Island ( Motokawa et al. 2003). Here, we regard populations of white-toothed shrews on Jeju Island as C. shantungensis and remove C. dsinezumi from the list of Korean mammals.