Crocidura zimmermanni Wettstein 1953

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 255

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Crocidura zimmermanni Wettstein 1953 , Z. Saugetierk., 17: 12.

Type Locality: Greece, Crete, Ida Mtns, Nida plateau.

Vernacular Names: Cretan Shrew.

Distribution: Highlands of the island of Crete.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: A Pleistocene relict (Reumer, 1986). Formerly regarded as a subspecies of russula but differs in morphology and karyotype (2n = 34, FN = 44); see Vesmanis and Kahmann (1978), Vogel (1986), Vogel et al. (1986), and Pieper (1990).