Crocidura leucodon (Hermann, 1780)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 88

Crocidura leucodon (Hermann, 1780) . In Zimmermann, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:382.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Bas Rhin, vicinity of Strasbourg .

DISTRIBUTION: France to the Volga and Caucasus; Elburz Mtns; Asia Minor; Israel; Lebanon; Lesbos Isl (Aegean Sea).

SYNONYMS: albipes, caspica, judaica, lasia, leucodus, microurus, narentae, persica.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Richter (1970) and Gureev (1979). Includes persica; see Dolgov (1979). Gureev (1979) and Gromov and Baranova (1981) listed persica as a distinct species without comment. Includes lasia; see Catzeflis et al. (1985), Gureev (1979), and Jenkins (1976); but also Corbet (1978c). Includes caspica from Iran and judaica from Palestine. European range reviewed by Krapp (1990), Arabian range by Harrison and Bates (1991).