Crocidura, Wagler, 1832

Botka, Dániel & Mészáros, Lukács, 2018, Taxonomic and palaeoecological review of the Soricidae (Mammalia) fauna from the late Early Pleistocene Somssich Hill 2 locality (Villány Hills, Southern Hungary) Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Palaeontology,, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 35, pp. 143-151 : 147

3. The rich Crocidura

material of Somssich Hill 2 site provided important data to the distinction of the Early Pleistocene white-toothed shrew Crocidura obtusa from the coeval C. kornfeldi . Latter was discovered by KORMOS (1934), while C. obtusa was originally described by KRETZOI (1938) as a new species. Because Kretzoi’s description was not properly detailed, the later authors separated the two species mainly on the basis of the size of the teeth. The morphometric studies by BOTKA & MÉSZÁROS (2015) revealed that the differentiation of the isolated teeth of C. kornfeldi and C. obtusa is unreal based on the measurements only. They emended the original diagnosis according to the observations of RZEBIK-KOWALSKA (2000) and their studies on the Somssich Hill 2 material with some morphological characters, mainly in the mandibular ramus.