Crocidura attenuata Milne-Edwards 1872

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Crocidura attenuata Milne-Edwards 1872

Crocidura attenuata Milne-Edwards 1872 , Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammiferes: 263.

Type Locality: China, Szechuan, Moupin (= Sichuan, Baoxing).

Vernacular Names: Asian Gray Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura grisea Howell 1926 ; Crocidura grisescens Howell 1928 ; Crocidura kingiana Anderson 1877 ; Crocidura rubricosa Anderson 1877 .

Distribution: Assam, Sikkim ( India), Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, S China; a doubtful record from Batan Isl ( Philippines).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Heaney and Timm (1983 b), Jenkins (1976), and Jiang and Hoffmann (2001:1069, Fig. 7), who included tanakae , which is now elevated to species level. Jenkins (1982) and Corbet and Hill (1992) included the long-tailed aequicaudata, but see under C. paradoxura . Motokawa et al. (2001 b) contrasted the karyotype of Chinese mainland attenuata (2n = 35-38, FN = 54) against the karyotype of Taiwanese tanakae (2n = 40, FN = 56) and suggested species status for the latter. A karyotype from Thailand identified as attenuata ( Tsuchiya et al., 1979) with 2n = 50 was probably based on a misidentification; it probably represented C. hilliana .