Crocidura gmelini (Pallas 1811)

[Crocidura] gmelini (Pallas 1811), Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, Vol. 1: 134.

Type Locality: "Hyrcania"; restricted to " Iran, Khorassan prov., Bujnurd distr., 85 km W Bujnurd, Dasht, 3200 ft. [975 m]" by Goodwin (1940) and Hoffmann (1996 a) .

Vernacular Names: Gmelin's White-toothed Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura hyrcania Goodwin 1940; Crocidura ilensis Miller 1901; Crocidura lar G. Allen 1928; Crocidura lignicolor Miller 1900; Crocidura mordeni Goodwin 1934; Crocidura portali Thomas 1920 .

Distribution: Israel through Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Pakistan to W China and Mongolia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Hoffmann (1996 a, b) designated a neotype, re-defined the species, and provided tentative distribution maps. The species is still unsufficiently known, particularly the relations to C. suaveolens and C. katinka must be studied (Hutterer and Kock, 2002). The taxon gmelini was previously regarded as a synomyn of Sorex minutus . C. portali was given species rank by Kryštufek and Vohralík (2001), but without regard to Hoffmann's papers.