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Crocidura suaveolens  (Pallas, 1811)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 633681

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Crocidura gmelini (Pallas, 1811)
  
    Sorex suaveolens Pallas, 1811
  
    Crocidura minuta Lyddeker, 1902
  
  Common Name(s): Lesser White-toothed Shrew [English]
  
    Lesser Shrew [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderEulipotyphla Waddell, Okada and Hasegawa, 1999  
                                  FamilySoricidae G. Fischer, 1814 – shrews  
                                     SubfamilyCrocidurinae A. Milne-Edwards, 1872 – white-toothed shrews  
                                        GenusCrocidura Wagler, 1832  
                                           SpeciesCrocidura suaveolens (Pallas, 1811) – Lesser White-toothed Shrew, Lesser Shrew  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Subspecies Crocidura suaveolens ilensis G. S. Miller, 1901  
                                              Subspecies Crocidura suaveolens pamirensis Ognev, 1928  
                                              Subspecies Crocidura suaveolens suaveolens (Pallas, 1811)  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Rainer Hutterer  
  Notes: Zoologisches Forschunginstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany   
  Reference for: Crocidura suaveolens    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Burgin, Connor, Kai He, Rudolf Haslauer, et al. / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2018   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family Soricidae (Shrews)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 8: Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos   
  Page(s): 332-550   
  Publisher: Lynx Edicions   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-16728-084   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Crocidura suaveolens, Lesser White-toothed Shrew [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Saeedzadeh, S., A. Mehdipour, J. Darvish, M. Aliabadian, and A. Mahmoudi  
  Publication Date: 2017   
  Article/Chapter Title: New look at the con-specificity of the two shrews, Crocidura gmelini and C. suaveolens from Iran; geometric morphometrics approach   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB), vol. 13, no. 2   
  Page(s): 237-246   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1735-434X   
  Notes: doi: 10.22067/ijab.v13i2.51950   
  Reference for: Crocidura suaveolens   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Crocidura suaveolens   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Crocidura suaveolens, Lesser White-toothed Shrew [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Crocidura suaveolens, Lesser Shrew [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
       
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