Crocidura Wagler, 1832 . Isis, p. 275.

TYPE SPECIES: Sorex leucodon Herman, 1780 .

SYNONYMS: Afrosorex, Heliosorex, Leucodon, Paurodus, Praesorex, Rhinomus (see Allen, 1939; Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977; and Hutterer, 1986a).

COMMENTS: Eurasian species revised by Jenkins (1976). Phylogenetic relationships of African and Palearctic species studied by Maddalena (1990). Gureev (1979) listed Praesorex as a distinct genus.