Chodsigoa sodalis Thomas 1913

Chodsigoa sodalis Thomas 1913, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 11: 217.

Type Locality: Central Taiwan, Mt. Arizan, 8,000 ft. (2438 m).

Vernacular Names: Lesser Taiwanese Shrew.

Distribution: Mountains of C Taiwan.

Discussion: Formerly included as a synonym in Episoriculus fumidus (Hoffmann, 1984), but Yu (1994) and Motokawa et al. (1997 b, 1998) re-definied C. sodalis and described its characteristical karyotype (2n = 44, FN = 88). Kuroda (1935) already correctly distinguished between Chodsigoa sodalis and Episoriculus fumidus .