Neomys fodiens (Pennant, 1771)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 110

Neomys fodiens (Pennant, 1771) . Synopsis Quadrupeds, p. 308.

TYPE LOCALITY: Germany, Berlin .

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

SYNONYMS: albus, aquaticus , argenteus, bicolor, brachyotus, canicularius, carinatus, ciliatus, collaris , constrictus, dagestanicus, daubentonii , eremita, fimbriatus, fluviatilis, griseogularis, hermanni , hydrophilus, ignotus, intermedius, limchjnhunii, lineatus, linneana, liricaudatus, longobarda, macrourus, minor , musculus, naias, natans, newtoni, niethammeri, nigripes , orientalis, orientis, pennantii, psilurus, remifer, rivalis, sowerbyi, stagnatilis, stresemanni, teres, watasei.

COMMENTS: Includes teres, orientis, and watasei as possible subspecies ( Ognev, 1928; Hoffmann, 1987; Yudin, 1989). Many of the listed synonyms have never been properly studied and identified; recently, Lehmann (1983) referred constrictus to Crocidura russula . The form niethammeri from NE Spain may represent a valid species (López-Fuster et al., 1990).