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Hemiechinus auritus Gmelin 



Long-eared hedgehog (uzun kulaki khpi) . 



Despite the widespread distribution of this species in southwestern 

 Asia, it has been recorded only from Aralyk in eastern Anatoha 

 (Satunm, 1901). It occurs on Cyprus (Bate, 1903) but Erinaceus 

 europaeus does not (fig. 1). 



Family Soricidae 



Sharp-Nosed Mice (Sivri Burunlu Fareler) 



Sorex minutus Linnaeus 



Dwarf sharp-nosed mouse (sivri burunlu ciice fare), lesser shrew. 



The range of this shrew includes most of Europe (Van den Brink, 

 1956), the western, northern, and eastern USSR, and Transcaucasia 

 (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). There is a collection in the 



Figure 2 

 Sorex minutus Sorex araneus 



O localities of collection # localities of collection 



new collection record: 1 Burniik new collection record: 2 Ulu Dag 



After Markov (1957), Bobrinskii et al (1944), Thomas (1913), and the British Museum 

 collection. 



British Museum (Natural History) from the mountains south of 

 Trebizon(d) (Trabzon), Turkey. I collected three specimens from 

 the same locality near Mereyem Ana (fig. 2) and two specimens near 

 Burniik, south of Sinop. 



