Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 58-106 : 100

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scientific name	Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766)
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Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:74.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India; Kashmir; Nepal; Sikkim; Java; Sulawesi and surrounding islands; Guam; Japan; S. China; Taiwan; Israel; Egypt to Tanzania; Arabia; Sinai; Iraq; Madagascar; Zanzibar; Comoro Isis.

COMMENT: Includes albicauda , auriculata, crassicaudus, duvernoyi, leucura , mauritiana, sacer, and geoffroyi ; see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977, Part 1:5. Gureev, 1979:383, listed leucura as a distinct species without comment. Much of the present distribution is the result of human agency (K. F. Koopman).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007020009001 as S. murinus .

5301403007005003001 as Crocidura albicauda .

5301403007005044001 as Crocidura geoffroyi .

5301403007020005001 as S. leucura'

References

Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).

Heim de Balsac, H., and J. Meester. 1977. Order Insectivora. Part 1. Pp. 1 - 29, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.