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Crocidura suaveolens Pallas 



Lesser white-toothed shrew. 



This shrew has been collected in Bulgaria (Markov, 1957), Greece 

 (Miller, 1912), and the USSR north and east of the Black Sea (Bo- 

 brinskii et al., 1944). The species is also known from Iran (Goodwin, 

 1940), Iraq (Harrison, 1956), and Palestine (Thomas, 1920, and 

 Bodenheimer, 1958). Although Van den Brink (1956) indicated that 

 the species occurred in Thrace, my seven specimens are the first to 

 have been recorded from the region. Three specimens from Yali- 

 kahve, Izmir, represent their first occurrence in western Anatolia 

 (fig. 4). 



Table 5. — External and cranial measurements and tail/head and body length ratios 

 of Crocidura suaveolens from Turkey 



Specimens from Yalikahve were trapped in bamboo along the high- 

 way; those from the Istanbul area were in dense vegetation along a 

 stream and in grass in a poplar forest. 



Locality records in Thrace and Anatoha suggest that there pre- 

 viously was a connection between populations of C. suaveolens that 

 have now been separated by the Bosporus (fig. 4). 



Specimens and measurements of C. suaveolens are listed in table 5. 



References 



Allen, G. M. 



1915. Mammals obtained by the Phillips Palestine Expedition. Bull. INIus. 

 Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. 59, pp. 1-14. 

 Bate, D. M. A. 



1903. The mammals of Cyprus. Proc. Zool. Soc, London, vol. 1, pt. 2, 

 pp. 341-348. 



