130 SORICID^— NEOMYS 



1839. SOREX FODIENS, var. LEUCOTIS, E. de Selys-Longchamps, Etudes de Micro- 

 mammalogie, 25, 142 ; described from St Gervais, at the foot of Mt. Blanc, Haute- 

 Savoie, France. 



1839. SOREX FODIENS, var. MAJOR and SOREX FODIENS, var. ALBIVENTRIS, auct. et 

 op. cit, \d,-2i ; named, but without description. 



1840. Crossopus SOWERBYI, Charles Lucien, Prince Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, i., 29 

 (under S.fodiens), renaming Sorex ciliatus of Sowerby. 



1853.? Myosictis (Crossopus) fodiens, M. Pomel, Catalogue mithodique et 

 descriptif des Vertdbrh fosailes du Bassin de la Loire, 14-15. 



1870. SOREX intermedius (part), E. Cornalia, Catalogo descrittivo del Mammiferi 

 osservati fino ad ora in Italia, 27 (not seen) ; although quoted under Sorex 

 alpinus by authors, is based upon a made-up specimen of Sorex and Neomysj 

 see Sordelli, Atti della Soc. Ital. di Sci. Nat., xxxviii., 362-365, 17th December 

 1899. 



1898. Neomys FODIENS, Oldfield Thomas, Zoologist, 100 and 102; Miller; 

 CoUett. 



1901. Neomys fodiens minor, G. S. Miller, junior, Proc. Biol. Soc. (Washington), 

 xiv., 45, 25th April 1901 ; described from Montrejeau, Haute-Garonne, France. 



1905. Crossopus ou Sorex ignotps, Victor Fatio, Archives des Sci. phys. et natu- 

 relles, 15th February, 202 ; described from Switzerland, from Neomys fodiens 

 (skull) -H 5i?r^;r araneus nudus (jaw); see Motia.!, Bull. Soc. Zool. (Geneva), i., 9, 

 15th November 1908, 167. 



1905. Neomys fodiens naias, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., May, 507 ; described from Hatzeg, Hunyad, Hungary. 



1905. Neomys fodiens ciliatus, G. E. H, Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat 

 Hist., 508, May ; Trouessart (1910). 



1906. Neomys fodiens nanus, R. Lydekker, Zoological Record, 1905, 34, August 

 1906 ; misprint for N.f. naias. 



The plan of the synonymy is the same as that of the two other 

 shrews. 



The Water Shrew owes its legion of synonyms to its puzzling 

 variations, together with the general obscurity with which, until recent 

 years, it has been surrounded. 



The specific name fodiens is usually cited as of Pallas, or Pallas in 

 Schreber, but although Pallas caused drawings of it to be made which 

 were inspected and utilised by Pennant amongst others, they were not 

 published in time to give the true author of the name the priority 

 which the rules of nomenclature require. Pennant appears to have 

 been the earliest copyist, but, since he published no description and 

 did not follow the rules of binomial nomenclature, his fodiens is a mere 

 nomen nudum. Schreber's fodiens, although there is no reason to oust 

 it, dates from the same year as Hermann's fodiens and Erxleben's 

 daubentonii. The latter was applied in honour of the French naturalist 

 of that name, who independently met with and described the Water 

 Shrew in the same year as Pallas. 



The swollen synonymy dates from Hermann of Strassburg. Working 

 with Gall's specimens, he described several forms of shrew, of which 



