Bicolored Shrew – Crocidura leucodon

Crocidura leucodonHermann, 1780

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

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 see also Corbet (1978c). Does not include caspica from Iran, but judaica from Palestine. European range reviewed by Krapp (1990), Arabian range by Harrison and Bates (1991). The assignment of hydruntina follows Nappi and Maio (2000). Karyotype has 2n = 28, FN = 56 (Zima et al., 1998).

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.