Table ¹: Number and identities of Israeli shrew species. in Molecular relationships of the Israeli shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) based on cytochrome b sequences

Table ¹: Number and identities of Israeli shrew species.
SourceShrew species inhabiting IsraelTristram (1884) Thomas (1919, 1920) hSorex araneus, S. tetragonurus a, S. pygmaeus b, S. crassicaudus c, S. fodiens d C. russula judaica, C. portali eBodenheimer (1935; 1937)Sorex araneus, Sorex minutus (= pygmaeus), Neomys fodiens, C. russula, C. r. judaica, C. portali e, S. tristrami fBodenheimer (1958)C. russula, C. judaica, C. suaveolens portali, S. etruscusHarrison (1963) iC. russula, C. leucodon judaica, C. suaveolens portaliMendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1987)C. russula, C. leucodon, C. suaveolens, S. etruscusMendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1999);C. leucodon judaica, C. suaveolens monacha, S. etruscus etruscusHarrison and Bates (1991)Dolev and Perevolotsky (2004);C. ramona, C. leucodon, C. suaveolens, S. etruscusMeiri et al. (2019), this workWilson and Reeder (2005)C. gmelini g, C. katinka, C. ramona, C. leucodon, C. suaveolens, S. etruscusIUCN red list (2020)C. katinka, C. ramona, C. leucodon, C. suaveolens, S. etruscus, perhaps C. gmeliniBurgin et al. (2018b)C. ramona, C. leucodon judaica, C. gueldenstaedtii gueldenstaedtii, S. etruscus etruscus
a Sorex tetragonurus has been synonymized with Sorex araneus (Wilson and Reeder 2005).
b Sorex pygmaeus has been synonymized with Suncus etruscus (Wilson and Reeder 2005).
c Sorex crassicaudus has been synonymized with Suncus murinus (Wilson and Reeder 2005). Its presence in Israel was considered to be the result of a misidenti fi cation by Bodenheimer (1958) and later sources.
d Sorex fodiens has been synonymized with Neomys fodiens (Wilson and Reeder 2005).
e Crocidura portali has been synonymized either with C. suaveolens (Bodenheimer 1958) or under C. gmelini g (Wilson and Reeder 2005), or kept at the species rank (KryŠtufek and Vohralík 2001).
f Suncus tristrami has been synonymized with C. suaveolens (Wilson and Reeder 2005).
g Crocidura gmelini has been synonymized with C. suaveolens (Bannikova et al. 2006; Burgin et al. 2018b; Saeedzadeh et al. 2017). h Description of speci fi c specimens.
i Harrison (1963) focused on the genus Crocidura.