Crocidura horsfieldii (Tomes, 1856) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 17:23.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Ceylon."

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; N Thailand to Vietnam; Nepal; Mysore and Ladak (India); Yunnan, Fukien, and Hainan Isl (China); Taiwan; Ryukyu Isis (Japan).

SYNONYMS: indochinensis, kurodai, myoides, retusa, tadae, watasei, wuchihensis.

COMMENTS: Subspecies or synonyms discussed by Jenkins (1976) and Jameson and Jones (1977). Usually spelled horsfieldi but Corbet and Hill (1991) correctly used horsfieldii .