Crocidura sibirica Dukelsky 1930

Crocidura sibirica Dukelsky 1930, Zool. Anz., 88: 75.

Type Locality: Russia, Siberia, S Krasnoyarsky Krai, upper Yenisei River, 96 km S of Minusinsk, Oznatchenoie.

Vernacular Names: Siberian Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura ognevi Stroganov 1956 .

Distribution: C Asia from Lake Issyk Kul to Upper Ob River; Lake Baikal; perhaps also Sinkiang (China) and Mongolia (see Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:50).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes ognevi; see Yudin (1989). Species reviewed by Zaitsev (1993). Genetic data show that sibirica is related to suaveolens and shantungensis (Han et al., 2002) .