Crocidura moschata Wagler, 1832

Turni, Hendrik, Hutterer, Rainer & Asher, Robert, 2007, Type specimens of “ insectivoran ” mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1470, pp. 1-33 : 21

Crocidura moschata Wagler, 1832

Wagler, J.G. (1832) Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Sãugethiere und Vögel. Isis von Oken 25: 1218.

Valid name: Crocidura suaveolens (Pallas, 1811)

Syntype: ZMB 83309, in alcohol; collected in Bavaria (by implication); no further data available.

Comments: This taxon was listed as a synonym of C. russula by previous authors but voucher specimens were never studied. The skull of syntype ZMB 83309 was extracted in June 2006 and revealed the identity of moschata as C. suaveolens . Measurements of ZMB 83309 are as follows: head and body length c. 59 mm, tail length 34 mm, hindfoot length 10.5 mm; skull small, third upper unicuspid smaller than second and parastyle of P4; condylobasal length 16.9 mm, maxillary width 5.5 mm, coronoid height 4.1 mm.