Crocidura siculo Miller, 1900 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14:41.

TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, Sicily, Palermo .

DISTRIBUTION: Sicily, Egadi Isis (Italy) and Gozo (Malta).

SYNONYMS: aegatensis, calypso, caudata, esuae.

COMMENTS: Revised by Hutterer (1991), who recognized one extinct and three extant subspecies. Formerly included in leucodon, russula, or suaveolens; but the species has a distinct karyotype (Vogel, 1988) and morphology (Vogel et al., 1989).