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Crocidura arabica Hutterer & Harrison, 1988 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 39: 64, figs. 3, 5, 6 

 Paratype. ZFMK 88.14, cranial fragment taken from owl 

 pellet; near Tawi Atair, Jebel Samhan, Dhofar, Oman, col- 

 lected by M.D. Gallagher, 9 Apr 1977; donated by D.L. 

 Harrison (HZM 19.8767). 



Current status. Crocidura arabica Hutterer & Harrison, 

 1988. 



Crocidura ariadne Pieper, 1979 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 29: 282, figs. 1-6 (30 Jan) 

 Holotype. ZFMK 78.100, cranial fragment taken from owl 

 pellet; Agia Pnevma, Crete, Greece, collected by Harald 

 Pieper, 23 Sept 1973. 



Current status. Crocidura suaveolens caneae (Hutterer 

 1981). 



Crocidura batakorum Hutterer, 2007 

 Lynx (Praha) n.s. 38: 11, figs. 5-8 

 Holotype. ZFMK 96.4 1 1 , old adult male(?), specimen in 

 spirit, skull extracted, part of left braincase damaged; Tan- 

 abag River Valley near village Kalabayog (09°44'N, 

 1 1 8°43 'E), ca. 60 km N Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Repub- 

 lic of the Philippines, 200 m, collected by S. Biichner, 10 

 Mar 1992. 



Current name. Crocidura batakorum Hutterer, 2007. 

 Comments. Status confirmed by Esselstyn et al. (2009). 



Crocidura (bottegi) obscurior Heim de Balsac, 1958 

 Mem. Inst. fr. Afr. noire 53: 328, fig. 24 

 Paratype. ZFMK 59.499, female preserved in spirit, skull 

 extracted and lost; "Foret Ziela", 500 m. Mount Nimba, 

 Guinea, collected by M. Lamotte, 24 Oct 1956, collector's 

 no. 59. 



Current name. Crocidura obscurior Heim de Balsac, 

 1958 



Comments. Specimen donated to M. Eisentraut by H. 

 Heim de Balsac. Holotype probably in MNHN. 



Crocidura canariensis Hutterer, Lopez-Jurado & Vogel, 

 1987 



J. nat. Hist. 21: 1354, figs. 2-A 



Holotype. ZFMK 86.75 (transferred to Museo Canario at 

 Las Palmas in 1987), adult male, specimen preserved in 

 spirit, skull and mandibles extracted; offspring of animals 

 collected at La Tiscamanita, N Tuineje, Fuerteventura, Ca- 

 nary Islands, Spain, by L. F. Lopez-Jurado, 30 Jan 1985. 

 Chromosome slides (IZEA 233 1 ; Hutterer et al. 1990, fig. 

 2) and frozen tissue kept at IZEA, Lausanne. 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 86.76, 86.370, two females in alcohol, 

 same data as holotype; ZFMK 86.72-74, three skeletons, 

 same data as holotype; ZFMK 86.371, skin from La Oli- 

 va, Fuerteventura, Nov 1984; ZFMK 86.372, skin from 

 Malpais de los Arravales, Fuerteventura; ZFMK 86.374- 



380, skulls from owl pellets collected near Gran Tarajal, 

 Fuerteventura, all collected by L. F. Lopez-Jurado. 

 Current name. Crocidura canariensis Hutterer, Lopez- 

 Jurado & Vogel, 1987. 



Comments. Holotype ZFMK 86.75 is voucher for the 

 GenBank sequences EF525043 and EF525160 (IZEA 

 2331, Dubey et al. 2008). Paratype ZFMK 86.76 is vouch- 

 er for the chromosome count 2n = 36, NF = 56, NFa = 52 

 in Hutterer et al. (1992), table 1 (IZEA voucher 2332). 



Crocidura flavescens bueae Heim de Balsac & Barloy, 

 1966 



Mammalia 30: 631 



Paratype. ZFMK 78.004, skin and skull of a juvenile fe- 

 male; garden of mission, Buea, ca. 1000 m, Cameroon, 

 collected by M. Eisentraut, 26 Jan 1954, field no. 54, re- 

 ceived in exchange from SMNS in 1978 (catalogue no. 

 SMNS 5561) 



Current name. Crocidura olivieri bueae Heim de Bal- 

 sac & Barloy, 1966. 



Comments. The holotype out of the same series ("femelle, 

 No. 53, Missionsgarten, Buea (Eisentraut . . .)") was in the 

 working collection of Heim de Balsac and today is in the 

 MNHN, Paris. In their short description the authors sta- 

 ted "Cotypes a choisir parmi les specimens de Buea, au 

 Musee de Bonn". The series collected by Eisentraut near 

 Buea in 1954 and 1957 and studied by Heim de Balsac 

 ended up at the SMNS, though. Apart from the paratype 

 in the ZFMK collection which was received in exchange 

 in 1978, there are three more paratypes in the SMNS with 

 the collection nos. SMNS 5559 (field no. 35), 5560 (field 

 no. 49) and 6561 (field no. 11). 



Crocidura flavescens hansruppi Hutterer, 1981 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 31: 226, fig. 3 (29 Jan) 

 Paratype. ZFMK 80.265, female, skin and skull; Jimma, 

 Kaffa Province, Ethiopia, collected by H. Rupp, 23 Aug 

 1973, collector's no. 477; received in exchange from 

 Stuttgart Museum (SMNS 23703), Apr 1980. 

 Current name. Crocidura olivieri group, status unre- 

 solved (Hutterer 2005). 



Comments. This form represents a dark chocolate-brown 

 forest form of the C. olivieri group in Ethiopia, the vari- 

 ation of which is still poorly understood. 



Crocidura lamottei elegans Hutterer, 1986 

 Cimbebasia, Ser. A., 8: 29 



Holotype. ZFMK 76.009, male, skin and skull; Bandia, 

 Senegal, collected by W. Bohme, W. Hartwig and H. Ul- 

 lenbruch, 9-20 Jan 1976, field no 279. 

 Paratype. ZFMK 76.010, female, skin and skull, same 

 dara as holotype, field no. 234. 



Current name. Crocidura lamottei elegans Hutterer, 

 1986. 



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