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This shrew is widely distributed and has been reported from all 

 countries adjacent to Turkey except Syria (fig. 4). Bodenheimer 

 (.1958) reported the species C. lasiura lasia Thomas 1906 = (C leucodon) 

 as being common in Lebanon. 



Figure 4 

 Crocidura russula Crocidura leucodon 



^ probable range ^ probable range 



9 localities of collection O localities of collection 



new collection records: 2 §ile; 3 Ta^koprii, new collection records: 1 Istanbul; 

 Yalova; 5 Cehennem Dere; 6 Tarsus; 3 Taskopru, Yalova; 10 Bektasaga, Sinop 

 7 Kayseri; 8 Amasya; 9 Borabay Lake, Crocidura suaveolens 



Ta§ova; 10 Bektasaga, Sinop 



111 probable range 



Crocidura lasiura ^ localities of collection 



X localities of collection new collection records: 1 Istanbul; 4 Izmir 



After Van den Brink (1956), Bobrinskii et al (1944), Hatt (1959), Markov (1957), Bate 

 (1903, 1945), Wettstein (1953), Allen (1915), Harrison (1956), Bodenheimer (1958), and 

 the collections of the British Museum and the Zoological Museum, Munich. 



Thomas (1906) first recorded the species from Turkey in the moun- 

 tains south of Trabzon. There are a few specimens in the British 

 Museum from Changra (Qankiri), Yozgat, and Smyrna (Izmir), 

 I collected two specimens near Bektasaga, Sinop, and one at Taskopru, 

 Yalova. Seven from the vicinity of Istanbul represent the first 

 specimen records from Thrace even though Van den Brink (1956) 

 included this area on his map of the range of this species. 



