Suncus Ehrenberg, 1832

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 101

Suncus Ehrenberg, 1832 . In Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. Mamm., 2:k.

TYPE SPECIES: Suncus sacer Ehrenberg, 1832 (= Sorex murinus Linnaeus, 1766 ).

SYNONYMS: Pachyura, Paradoxodon, Plerodus , Podihik, Sunkus.

COMMENTS: Subfamily Crocidurinae ; see Repenning (1967:15). Occasionally regarded as part of Crocidura (e.g. Lekagul and McNeely, 1977:35), but accepted as a full genus by most authors. Includes Pachyura, Paradoxodon, and Plerodus ; see Meester and Lambrechts (1971), who revised the southern African species.