Crocidura zimmermanni Wettstein 1953

Crocidura zimmermanni Wettstein 1953, Z. Saugetierk., 17: 12.

Type Locality: Greece, Crete, Ida Mtns, Nida plateau.

Vernacular Names: Cretan Shrew.

Distribution: Highlands of the island of Crete.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: A Pleistocene relict (Reumer, 1986). Formerly regarded as a subspecies of russula but differs in morphology and karyotype (2n = 34, FN = 44); see Vesmanis and Kahmann (1978), Vogel (1986), Vogel et al. (1986), and Pieper (1990).