Crocidurinae

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Ordo: Soricomorpha
Familia: Soricidae
Subfamilia: Crocidurinae
Genera: Crocidura - Diplomesodon - Feroculus - Paracrocidura - Ruwenzorisorex - Scutisorex - Solisorex - Suncus - Sylvisorex

Name

Crocidurinae Milne-Edwards, 1872

Vernacular Names
Internationalization
日本語: ジネズミ亜科

References

* Crocidurinae on Mammal species of the World.
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2 Volume Set edited by Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder

The white-toothed shrews or Crocidurinae are one of three subfamilies of the shrew family Soricidae.

Unlike the red-toothed shrews, the outer layer of their teeth is white. These species are typically found in Africa and southern Europe and Asia. This subfamily includes the largest shrew, the Asian House Shrew (Suncus murinus), at about 15 cm in length, and the smallest, the Etruscan Shrew (Suncus etruscus), at about 3.5 cm in length and 2 grams in weight, possibly the world's smallest living mammal (although some give this title to the Bumblebee Bat). Crocidura contains the largest number of species of any mammal genus.

When young must be moved before they are independent, mother and young form a chain or "caravan" where each animal hangs on to the rear of the one in front. This behaviour has also been observed in some Sorex species.

List of species

Subfamily Crocidurinae

* Genus Crocidura (white-toothed shrews)
o Cyrenaica Shrew, Crocidura aleksandrisi
o East African Highland Shrew, Crocidura allex
o Andaman Shrew, Crocidura andamanensis
o Crocidura annamitensis
o Ansell's Shrew, Crocidura ansellorum
o Arabian Shrew, Crocidura arabica
o Jackass Shrew, Crocidura arispa
o Armenian Shrew, Crocidura armenica
o Asian Gray Shrew, Crocidura attenuata
o Hun Shrew, Crocidura attila
o Bailey's Shrew, Crocidura baileyi
o Kinabalu Shrew, Crocidura baluensis
o Batak Shrew, Crocidura batakorum
o Bates's Shrew, Crocidura batesi
o Mindanao Shrew, Crocidura beatus
o Beccari's Shrew, Crocidura beccarii
o Bottego's Shrew, Crocidura bottegi
o Bale Shrew, Crocidura bottegoides
o Thick-tailed Shrew, Crocidura brunnea
o Buettikofer's Shrew, Crocidura buettikoferi
o African Dusky Shrew, Crocidura caliginea
o Canarian Shrew, Crocidura canariensis
o Caspian Shrew, Crocidura caspica
o Cinderella Shrew, Crocidura cinderella
o Congo White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura congobelgica
o Crocidura cranbooki
o Long-footed Shrew, Crocidura crenata
o Crosse's Shrew, Crocidura crossei
o Reddish-gray Musk Shrew, Crocidura cyanea
o Dent's Shrew, Crocidura denti
o Desperate Shrew, Crocidura desperata
o Dhofar Shrew, Crocidura dhofarensis
o Long-tailed Musk Shrew, Crocidura dolichura
o Doucet's Musk Shrew, Crocidura douceti
o Dsinezumi Shrew, Crocidura dsinezumi
o Eisentraut's Shrew, Crocidura eisentrauti
o Elgon Shrew, Crocidura elgonius
o Elongated Shrew, Crocidura elongata
o Heather Shrew, Crocidura erica
o Fischer's Shrew, Crocidura fischeri
o Greater Red Musk Shrew, Crocidura flavescens
o Flower's Shrew, Crocidura floweri
o Bornean Shrew, Crocidura foetida
o Fox's Shrew, Crocidura foxi
o Southeast Asian Shrew, Crocidura fuliginosa
o Savanna Shrew, Crocidura fulvastra
o Smoky White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura fumosa
o Bicolored Musk Shrew, Crocidura fuscomurina
o Glass's Shrew, Crocidura glassi
o Gmelin's White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura gmelini
o Goliath Shrew, Crocidura goliath
o Peters's Musk Shrew, Crocidura gracilipes
o Large-headed Shrew, Crocidura grandiceps
o Greater Mindanao Shrew, Crocidura grandis
o Grasse's Shrew, Crocidura grassei
o Luzon Shrew, Crocidura grayi
o Greenwood's Shrew, Crocidura greenwoodi
o Crocidura guy
o Harenna Shrew, Crocidura harenna
o Crocidura hikmiya
o Hildegarde's Shrew, Crocidura hildegardeae
o Hill's Shrew, Crocidura hilliana
o Lesser Red Musk Shrew, Crocidura hirta
o Andaman Spiny Shrew, Crocidura hispida
o Horsfield's Shrew, Crocidura horsfieldii
o Hutan Shrew, Crocidura hutanis
o North African White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura ichnusae
o Indochinese Shrew, Crocidura indochinensis
o Jackson's Shrew, Crocidura jacksoni
o Jenkins' Shrew, Crocidura jenkinsi
o Jouvenet's Shrew, Crocidura jouvenetae
o Katinka's Shrew, Crocidura katinka
o Ke Go Shrew, Crocidura kegoensis
o Kivu Shrew, Crocidura kivuana
o Lamotte's Shrew, Crocidura lamottei
o Kivu Long-haired Shrew, Crocidura lanosa
o Ussuri White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura lasiura
o Latona's Shrew, Crocidura latona
o Sulawesi Shrew, Crocidura lea
o Sumatran Giant Shrew, Crocidura lepidura
o Bicolored Shrew, Crocidura leucodon
o Sulawesi Tiny Shrew, Crocidura levicula
o Butiaba Naked-tailed Shrew, Crocidura littoralis
o Savanna Swamp Shrew, Crocidura longipes
o Lucina's Shrew, Crocidura lucina
o Ludia's Shrew, Crocidura ludia
o Moonshine Shrew, Crocidura luna
o Mauritanian Shrew, Crocidura lusitania
o MacArthur's Shrew, Crocidura macarthuri
o MacMillan's Shrew, Crocidura macmillani
o Nyiro Shrew, Crocidura macowi
o Malayan Shrew, Crocidura malayana
o Manenguba Shrew, Crocidura manengubae
o Makwassie Musk Shrew, Crocidura maquassiensis
o Swamp Musk Shrew, Crocidura mariquensis
o Gracile Naked-tailed Shrew, Crocidura maurisca
o Javanese Shrew, Crocidura maxi
o Mindoro Shrew, Crocidura mindorus
o Sri Lankan Long-tailed Shrew, Crocidura miya
o Kilimanjaro Shrew, Crocidura monax
o Sunda Shrew, Crocidura monticola (see also Neglected Shrew)
o Montane White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura montis
o West African Long-tailed Shrew, Crocidura muricauda
o Mossy Forest Shrew, Crocidura musseri
o Ugandan Musk Shrew, Crocidura mutesae
o Somali Dwarf Shrew, Crocidura nana
o Savanna Dwarf Shrew, Crocidura nanilla
o Peninsular Shrew, Crocidura negligens
o Negros Shrew, Crocidura negrina
o Nicobar Shrew, Crocidura nicobarica
o Nigerian Shrew, Crocidura nigeriae
o Blackish White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura nigricans
o Black-footed Shrew, Crocidura nigripes
o African Black Shrew, Crocidura nigrofusca
o Nimba Shrew, Crocidura nimbae
o Niobe's Shrew, Crocidura niobe
o West African Pygmy Shrew, Crocidura obscurior
o African Giant Shrew, Crocidura olivieri
o Oriental Shrew, Crocidura orientalis
o Ryukyu Shrew, Crocidura orii
o Palawan Shrew, Crocidura palawanensis
o Panay Shrew, Crocidura panayensis
o Sumatran Long-tailed Shrew, Crocidura paradoxura
o Small-footed Shrew, Crocidura parvipes
o Sahelian Tiny Shrew, Crocidura pasha
o Pale Gray Shrew, Crocidura pergrisea
o Guramba Shrew, Crocidura phaeura
o Crocidura phanluongi
o Phu Hoc Shrew, Crocidura phuquocensis
o Cameroonian Shrew, Crocidura picea
o Pitman's Shrew, Crocidura pitmani
o Flat-headed Shrew, Crocidura planiceps
o Fraser's Musk Shrew, Crocidura poensis
o Polia's Shrew, Crocidura polia
o Kashmir White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura pullata
o Rainey's Shrew, Crocidura raineyi
o Negev Shrew, Crocidura ramona
o Chinese White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura rapax
o Egyptian Pygmy Shrew, Crocidura religiosa
o Sulawesi White-handed Shrew, Crocidura rhoditis
o Roosevelt's Shrew, Crocidura roosevelti
o Greater White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura russula
o Ugandan Lowland Shrew, Crocidura selina
o Lesser Rock Shrew, Crocidura serezkyensis
o Asian Lesser White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura shantungensis
o Siberian Shrew, Crocidura sibirica
o Sicilian Shrew, Crocidura sicula
o Lesser Gray-brown Musk Shrew, Crocidura silacea
o Desert Musk Shrew, Crocidura smithii
o Sokolov's Shrew, Crocidura sokolovi
o Somali Shrew, Crocidura somalica
o Kahuzi Swamp Shrew, Crocidura stenocephala
o Lesser White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura suaveolens
o Iranian Shrew, Crocidura susiana
o Tanzanian Shrew, Crocidura tansaniana
o Tarella Shrew, Crocidura tarella
o Saharan Shrew, Crocidura tarfayensis
o Telford's Shrew, Crocidura telfordi
o Timor Shrew, Crocidura tenuis
o Thalia's Shrew, Crocidura thalia
o Therese's Shrew, Crocidura theresae
o Sao Tomé Shrew, Crocidura thomensis
o Christmas Island Shrew, Crocidura trichura
o Turbo Shrew, Crocidura turba
o Ultimate Shrew, Crocidura ultima
o Usambara Shrew, Crocidura usambarae
o Savanna Path Shrew, Crocidura viaria
o Mamfe Shrew, Crocidura virgata
o Voi Shrew, Crocidura voi
o Voracious Shrew, Crocidura vorax
o Banka Shrew, Crocidura vosmaeri
o Lesser Ryukyu Shrew, Crocidura watasei
o Whitaker's Shrew, Crocidura whitakeri
o Wimmer's Shrew, Crocidura wimmeri
o Hainan Island Shrew, Crocidura wuchihensis
o Xanthippe's Shrew, Crocidura xantippe
o Yankari Shrew, Crocidura yankariensis
o Mikhail Zaitsev's Shrew, Crocidura zaitsevi
o Zaphir's Shrew, Crocidura zaphiri
o Zarudny's Rock Shrew, Crocidura zarudnyi
o Upemba Shrew, Crocidura zimmeri
o Cretan Shrew, Crocidura zimmermanni
* Genus Diplomesodon
o Piebald Shrew, Diplomesodon pulchellum
* Genus Feroculus
o Kelaart's Long-clawed Shrew, Feroculus feroculus
* Genus Paracrocidura (Large-headed shrews)
o Grauer's Large-headed Shrew, Paracrocidura graueri
o Greater Large-headed Shrew, Paracrocidura maxima
o Lesser Large-headed Shrew, Paracrocidura schoutedeni
* Genus Ruwenzorisorex
o Ruwenzori Shrew, Ruwenzorisorex suncoides
* Genus Scutisorex
o Armored Shrew, Scutisorex somereni
* Genus Solisorex
o Pearson's Long-clawed Shrew, Solisorex pearsoni
* Genus Suncus
o Taita Shrew, Suncus aequatorius
o Black Shrew, Suncus ater
o Day's Shrew, Suncus dayi
o Etruscan Shrew, Suncus etruscus
o Sri Lankan Shrew, Suncus fellowesgordoni
o Bornean Pygmy Shrew, Suncus hosei
o Least Dwarf Shrew, Suncus infinitesimus
o Greater Dwarf Shrew, Suncus lixus
o Madagascan Pygmy Shrew, Suncus madagascariensis
o Malayan Pygmy Shrew, Suncus malayanus
o Climbing Shrew, Suncus megalura
o Flores Shrew, Suncus mertensi
o Asian Highland Shrew, Suncus montanus
o Asian House Shrew, Suncus murinus
o Remy's Pygmy Shrew, Suncus remyi
o Anderson's Shrew, Suncus stoliczkanus
o Lesser Dwarf Shrew, Suncus varilla
o Jungle Shrew, Suncus zeylanicus
* Genus Sylvisorex (forest shrews)
o Cameroonian Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex cameruniensis
o Grant's Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex granti
o Howell's Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex howelli
o Bioko Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex isabellae
o Johnston's Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex johnstoni
o Kongana Shrew, Sylvisorex konganensis
o Moon Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex lunaris
o Mt. Cameroon Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex morio
o Greater Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex ollula
o Lesser Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex oriundus
o Rain Forest Shrew, Sylvisorex pluvialis
o Volcano Shrew, Sylvisorex vulcanorum

References

1. ^ Hutterer, Rainer (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 224-263. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.