Type specimens of “ insectivoran ” mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Author Turni, Hendrik Author Hutterer, Rainer Author Asher, Robert text Zootaxa 2007 1470 1 33 journal article 49711 10.5281/zenodo.273750 b791e095-c2b5-46d1-8666-d67f9f3c4347 1175-5326 273750 Crocidura albicauda Peters, 1866 Peters, W.C.H. ( 1866 ) Vorlãufige Ü bersicht der aus dem Nachlasse des Baron Carl von der Decken stammenden und auf seiner ostafricanischen Reise gesammelten Sãugethiere und Amphibien . Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin : 885 [ 884–892 ]. Valid name: Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766) Syntypes : ZMB 83302, female, juv., body in alcohol; ZMB 3463, male, adult, in alcohol, skull extracted. Collected by von der Decken from Angasija [Ngasidja, Grande Comore ] ca. 1862. Comments: Hutterer & Tranier (1990) discussed the status of C. albicauda . ZMB 3463 has the dental formula of Crocidura , but resembles Suncus in other skull characteristics, body size, and in having a thick, hairy white tail. Hence, Hutterer & Tranier regarded the specimen to be a Suncus murinus , missing one pair of unicuspid teeth. Specimens collected later by Voeltzkow on the same island are definitely Suncus murinus . Symmetrical absence of last upper unicuspid is not unusual in Suncus murinus and was also found in several Japanese populations, in one case in 100% of all animals from Nagasaki (Koyasu et al. 2005).