Crocidura suaveolens (Pallas, 1811) . Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., 1:133.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Crimea, Khersones, near Sevastopol .

DISTRIBUTION: Entire Palearctic from Spain to Korea; Atlantic islands (Scilly, Jersey, Sark, Ushant, Yeu); many Mediterranean islands including Corsica, Crete, Cyprus, and Menorca; Tsushima and Ullong Do between Korea and Japan.

SYNONYMS: antipae, ariadne, astrabadensis, avicennai, balcanica, balearica, bruecheri, cantanbra, caneae, cassiteridum, coreae, corsicana, cypria, cyrnensis, debeauxi, dinniki, enezsizunensis, heptapotamica, hyrcania, iculisma, ilensis, italica, lar, lignicolor, longicauda, mimula, mimuloides, minuta, monacha, mordeni, oayensis, orientis, pamirensis, phaeopus, portali, praecypria, sarda, shantungensis, tristami, utsuryoensis, uxantisi.

COMMENTS: A widespread and variable species which has often been confused with russula; the taxonomic status of many E Asian forms is still unsolved; see also under gueldenstaedtii . The European and Arabian range was reviewed by Vlasâk and Niethammer (1990) and Harrison and Bates (1991), respectively; a discussion of suaveolens in Korea and Taiwan was given by Jones and Johnson (1960) and Jameson and Jones (1977).